Series of League of Nations Publications
Author: League of Nations
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 224
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The League of Nations
Author: Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2019-07-28
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 877184838X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Treaty of Versailles
Author: Manfred F. Boemeke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-13
Total Pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780521621328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Peace That Never Was
Author: Ruth Henig
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1912208563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNinety 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.
The League of Nations
Author: Ruth Henig
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1907822127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNinety 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.
Plowshares Into Swords
Author: David Ekbladh
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-09-30
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0226820491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Knowledge in Exile -- The League Is the Thing: International Society's Super-University -- Plowshares into Swords: Knowledge, Weaponized -- Internationalist Dunkirk: International Society in Exile -- The Rover Boys of Reconstruction: International Society in the American World -- Coda: Great Leaps Forward.
Double Taxation and the League of Nations
Author: Sunita Jogarajan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-10
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1108383742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously unexplored archival material, Sunita Jogarajan provides the first in-depth examination of the development of the League's Models. This new research provides insights into questions such as the importance of double taxation versus tax evasion; the preference for source-taxation versus residence-taxation; the influence of theory and practice on the League's work; the development of bilateral rather than multilateral treaties; the influence of developing countries on the League's work; the role of Commentary in interpreting model tax treaties; and the influential factors and key individuals involved. A better understanding of the development of the original models will inform and help guide interpretation and reform of modern-day tax treaties. Additionally, this book will be of interest to scholars of international relations and the development of law at international organisations.
The League of Nations
Author: F. S. Northedge
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
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Author: David Macfadyen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-02-06
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 3030047326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in the front rank of the 12 men who have occupied the post of Secretary-General of the League or its successor, the UN. Part 1 describes his character and leadership. His influence in shaping the International Civil Service, the ‘beating heart’ of the League, is the subject of Part 2, which also shows how the young staff he appointed responded with imagination and creativity to the political, economic and social problems that followed World War I. Part 3 shows the influence of these early origins on today’s global organizations and the large scale absorption of League policies, programmes, practices and staff into the UN and its Specialized Agencies.
Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States
Author: F. H. Hinsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1967-10
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9780521094481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last years of the nineteenth century peace proposals were first stimulated by fear of the danger of war rather than in consequence of its outbreak. In this study of the nature and history of international relations Mr Hinsley presents his conclusions about the causes of war and the development of men's efforts to avoid it. In the first part he examines international theories from the end of the middle ages to the establishment of the League of Nations in their historical setting. This enables him to show how far modern peace proposals are merely copies or elaborations of earlier schemes. He believes there has been a marked reluctance to test these theories not only against the formidable criticisms of men like Rousseau, Kant and Bentham, but also against what we have learned about the nature of international relations and the history of the practice of states. This leads him to the second part of his study - an analysis of the origins of the modern states' system and of its evolution between the eighteenth century and the First World War.
