The Fourteen Points Speech

The Fourteen Points Speech
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-06-17
Genre:
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.

Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States

Power and the Pursuit of Peace: Theory and Practice in the History of Relations Between States
Author: F. H. Hinsley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1967-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521094481

In 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.

Renegotiating the World Order

Renegotiating the World Order
Author: Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107149762

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing order. This book is particularly relevant for those interested in topics such as international organizations, such as United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, political economy, international security, US diplomacy, Chinese diplomacy, and Japanese diplomacy.

The League of Nations

The League of Nations
Author: Karen Gram-Skjoldager
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-07-28
Genre: 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.

The Guardians

The Guardians
Author: Susan Pedersen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199570485

"A sweeping global history of the League of Nations' mandates system and the limits of imperial order"--

Eric Drummond and his Legacies

Eric Drummond and his Legacies
Author: David Macfadyen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2019-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030047326

This 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.