Author : Manfred F. Boemeke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1998-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521621328
This text scrutinizes the motives, actions, and constraints that informed decision making by the various politicians who bore the principal responsibility for drafting the Treaty of Versailles.
Author : M. Cottrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317395964
The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it’s come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for one that may still come. As the first experiment in world organization, the League played a pivotal, but often overlooked role in the creation of the United Nations and the modern architecture of global governance. In contrast to conventional accounts, which chronicle the institution’s successes and failures during the interwar period, Cottrell explores the enduring relevance of the League of Nations for the present and future of global politics. He asks: What are the legacies of the League experiment? How do they inform current debates on the health of global order and US leadership? Is there a "dark side" to these legacies? Cottrell demonstrates how the League of Nations’ soul continues to shape modern international relations, for better and for worse. Written in a manner accessible to students of international history, international relations and global politics, it will also be of interest to graduates and scholars.
Author : John Milton Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521807869
An engaging narrative about the political fight over the League of Nations in the US.
Author : Woodrow Wilson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2017-06-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781548159412
This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.
Author : Ruth Henig
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1912208563
Ninety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged. This new form for diplomacy was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as well as to discuss human rights and refugee issues. The League’s failure to prevent World War II, however, would lead to its dissolution and the subsequent creation of the United Nations. As we face new forms of global crisis, this timely book asks if the UN’s fate could be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor.
Author : Sakiko Kaiga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108733540
In this innovative account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first international organisation for peace. Combining international, social, intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in the twentieth century to the present.
Author : Susan Pedersen
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0199570485
"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--
Author : Ruth Henig
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1907822127
Ninety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged. This new form for diplomacy was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as well as to discuss human rights and refugee issues. The League’s failure to prevent World War II, however, would lead to its dissolution and the subsequent creation of the United Nations. As we face new forms of global crisis, this timely book asks if the UN’s fate could be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor.
Author : Iris Borowy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Communication in public health
ISBN : 9783631586877
The League of Nations Health Organisation was the first international health organisation with a broad mandate and global responsibilities. It acted as a technical agency of the League of Nations, an institution designed to safeguard a new world order during the tense interwar period. The work of the Health Organisation had distinct political implications, although ostensibly it was concerned «merely» with health. Until 1946, it addressed a broad spectrum of issues, including public health data, various diseases, biological standardization and the reform of national health systems. The economic depression spurred its focus on social medicine, where it sought to identify minimum standards for living conditions, notably nutrition and housing, defined as essential for healthy lives. Attracting a group of innovative thinkers, the organization laid the groundwork for all following international health work, effective until today.
Author : Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2019-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 877184838X
The League of Nations - Perspectives from the Present is an accessible and richly illustrated edited volume displaying a wide variety of cutting-edge research on the many ways the League of Nations shaped its times and continues to shape our contemporary world. A series of bite-size studies, divided into three thematic parts, investigates how the League affected the world around it and the lives of the people who became part of this 'first great experiment' in international organisation. Recent research has reinterpreted the League as a laboratory of global economic, political and humanitarian governance. Expanding on this, the volume aims to show that the League is an 'academic site', where international history - as a discipline - has re-invented itself by integrating new approaches from social, cultural and media history. With an introduction by Director-General Michael Moller of the United Nations Organisation in Geneva, this work is a timely reminder of the fragile, varied and enduring history of multilateralism, on the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
