Over the last two decades, the "new international order" of 1919 has grown into an expansive new area of research across multiple disciplines. With the League of Nations at its heart, the interwar settlement's innovations in international organizations, international law, and ma…
In the decades following Europe's first total war, millions of British men and women looked to the League of Nations as the symbol and guardian of a new world order based on international co-operation. Founded in 1919 to preserve peace between its member-states, the League inspi…
"This book attempts to reconstruct and interpret Germany's relationship with the League of Nations -- her policy at Geneva, the interplay of policy and politics, and the attitudes and opinions that inspired both policy and politics"--Preface.
"This book attempts to reconstruct and interpret Germany's relationship with the League of Nations -- her policy at Geneva, the interplay of policy and politics, and the attitudes and opinions that inspired both policy and politics"--Preface.
Many historians have underestimated the significance of interwar internationalism, treating the League of Nations and the efforts of internationalists as idealistic failures in an age that was characterised by international tensions and aggressive nationalisms. Internationalism…
This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focus on the period from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the nation-state ascended to global hegemony as a political formation. Combining global, regional and local scaes…
