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The League of Nations occupies a fascinating yet paradoxical place in human history. Over time, it has come to symbolize both a path to peace and to war, a promising vision of world order and a utopian illusion, an artifact of a bygone era and a beacon for one that may still come. As the first experiment in world organization, the League played a pivotal, but often overlooked role in the creation of the United Nations and the modern architecture of global governance. In contrast to conventional accounts, which chronicle the institution's successes and failures during the interwar period, the author explores the enduring relevance of the League of Nations for the present and future of global politics. He asks : What are the legacies of the League experiment ? How do they inform current debates on the health of global order and US leadership ? Is there a 'dark side' to these legacies ? The author demonstrates how the League of Nations' soul continues to shape modern international relations, for better and for worse.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS--HISTORY

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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 scales of analysis, the essays presented here provide an interpretation of the two institutions -- and their complex interrelationship -- that is planetary in scale but also pioneeringly multi-local. The central argument is that although the League and the UN shaped internationalism from the centre, they were themselves moulded just as powerfully by internationalisms that welled up globally, far beyond Geneva and New York City. As an ensemble, the book shows how the League of Nations and the United Nations constructed and progressively re-fashioned the basic building blocks of international society right across the twentieth century. Developing the new international history's view of the League and UN as dynamic, complex forces, the book demonstrates that both organisations should be understood to have played an active role, not just in mediating a world of empires and then one of nation-states, but in forging the many principles and tenets by which international society is structured.

International organization --- History --- League of Nations --- United Nations --- History. --- INTERNATONALISM --- INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES --- LEAGUE OF NATIONS--HISTORY --- UNITED NATIONS--HISTORY