UID:
almafu_9961764433702883
Format:
1 online resource (VIII, 314 p.)
ISBN:
9783111063973
Content:
As an early experiment in the creation of multilateral institutions, the League of Nations was entrusted by its members to maintain peace but also to be a standard-maker and a manager of contemporary problems and challenges requiring a global response. Nevertheless, after a while it became clear that its performance in addressing major conflicts did not live up to the expectations of guarantying collective security. In the functional areas, although the organization created precedents, it also showed limitations. Due to its complexity, increasingly the League of Nations has been studied not only from an institutional perspective but also from a more multidimensional and comparative point of view that allows to consider the presence and role of the organization in various scales and spaces, besides its relationship with a diversity of actors and themes. The League of Nations Experience: Overlapping Readings offers a multitude of interpretations, evincing some of the promising avenues through which the League of Nations continues to inspire academic research.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction – The League of Nations experience: Overlapping readings --
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A contentious idea --
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The Institut de Droit International’s response to the birth of the League of Nations --
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The League of Nations or European federation: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s decade of debate over a “United States of Europe,” 1923–1933 --
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Hopes and aspirations --
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Korea and the League of Nations: from Versailles to the Manchurian Crisis, 1919–1933 --
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The accession of British colonies to the League of Nations and the “Third” British Empire --
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The membership of the Executive Council: Portugal’s highest aspiration in the League of Nations --
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Decentering the view --
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Plowshares into swords: The League of Nations as a weapon of internationalist war --
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Survived on sufferance: Social policy, the ILO and the new “World Organisation,” 1941–1945 --
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A plethora of varied initiatives --
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The Information Section of the League of Nations: An experiment in organising communication in international relations --
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The League and the world: how and why the League of Nations became the centre of world economic statistics --
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The fight against the trafficking of women and minors before and within the League of Nations: A path to legitimacy for European voluntary associations --
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Abstracts --
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List of contributors --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111064345
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783111056586
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783111063973
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111063973
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111063973
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