The League of Nations

Paper Summary:

This paper outlines the aims and the design of the League of Nations following its establishment in 1919. It looks at the responsibility of the League of Nations and examines whether this new system of international organisation differed fundamentally from the one that had dominated the pre-war world up until that point. The paper is largely written in point form.

Table of Contents:
Section One:
Introduction And Overview
Section Two:
Executive Summary Of The Aims Of
The League Of Nations
Introduction
Aims Of The League Of Nations
Section Three:
The Aims Of The League Of Nations
Introduction
Overall Outline Of Aims
Examination Of Aims
Section Four:
Executive Summary Of The Design
Of The League Of Nations
Introduction
Design Of The League
Section Five:
The Design Of The League Of Nations
Introduction
The Overall Design
Section Six:
Executive Summary Of The Differences
Between The League Of Nations And Pre War International Organisations
Introduction
Section Seven:
The Differences Between The League Of Nations And Pre War International Organisations
Introduction
Section Eight:
Literary Review

From the Paper:

"The history of the League of Nations, although being a legitimate field of study has been subject to very little revisionist literature. Even Boemeke, Feldman and Glaser offer little reassessment, regardless of the title of their work. Furthermore as Macmillan outlines "Only a handful of eccentric historians still bother to study the League of Nations" . Given this it is difficult to interpret and evaluate different schools of thought on this issue and the relative bias that such views would provide."
"During the research for this report two sources proved to be extremely useful. These were Leroy Bennett's International Organisations and Alan Sharp's The Versailles Settlement. Bennett's work focuses on the actual logistical processes involved in the League of Nations and outlines in eloquent detail the roles and responsibilities of the various organs of the League. Armstrong's From Versailles to Maastricht also achieves this."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Armstrong, David, Lorna Lloyd and John Redmond. From Versailles to Maastricht: International Organisation in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1996.
• Bennett, Leroy. International Organisations: Principles and Issues 6th Edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1995.
• Bridge, FR. 1914: The Coming of the First World War 2nd Edition. London: The Historical Association, 1988.
• Boemeke, Manfred, Gerald Feldman and Elisabeth Glaser. The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 years. Washington: German Historical Institute, 1998.
• Henig, Ruth. Versailles and After 2nd Edition. London: Routledge, 1995.

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