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The League of Nations / Joseph Maiolo, Laura Robson

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in modern warsPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781009514149
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.22 23/eng/20250310
LOC classification:
  • KZ4871
Online resources: Summary: The Element challenges histories of the League of Nations that present it as a meaningful if flawed experiment in global governance. Such accounts have largely failed to admit its overriding purpose: not to work towards international cooperation among equally sovereign states, but to claim control over the globe's resources, weapons, and populations for its main showrunners (including the United States) - and not through the gentle arts of persuasion and negotiation but through the direct and indirect use of force and the monopolisation of global military and economic power. The League's advocates framed its innovations, from refugee aid to disarmament, as manifestations of its commitment to an obvious universal good and, often, as a series of technocratic, scientific solutions to the problems of global disorder. But its practices shored up the dominance of the western victors and preserved longstanding structures of international power and civilizational-racial hierarchy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CorePPN: PPN: 1922672157Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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