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Although the modern movement prided itself particularly on its concern and expertise in planning the vast social building programs that underpinned the domestic legitimacy of most twentieth century states, the years of its ascendancy also saw the emergence of a new 'international' field of architectural endeavor, focused both on specific global built-environment "causes" (such as the 'habitat' crisis) and on the pursuit of international goodwill in its own right: organizations such as the International Union of Architects devoted strenuous efforts to the protection of the ideal of apolitical professional solidarity against the buffeting of the violent geo-political storms of the age.