The League of Nations: A Chapter in World Politics

1928 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Manley O. Hudson ◽  
John Spencer Bassett
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations

scholarly journals The hierarchical society: the politics of self-determination and the constitution of new states after 1919

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-396
Author(s):  
Maja Spanu
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Society ◽  
International System ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
World War ◽  
New States ◽  
History Of

International Relations scholarship disconnects the history of the so-called expansion of international society from the presence of hierarchies within it. In contrast, this article argues that these developments may in fact be premised on hierarchical arrangements whereby new states are subject to international tutelage as the price of acceptance to international society. It shows that hierarchies within international society are deeply entrenched with the politics of self-determination as international society expands. I substantiate this argument with primary and secondary material on the Minority Treaty provisions imposed on the new states in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe admitted to the League of Nations after World War I. The implications of this claim for International Relations scholarship are twofold. First, my argument contributes to debates on the making of the international system of states by showing that the process of expansion of international society is premised on hierarchy, among and within states. Second, it speaks to the growing body of scholarship on hierarchy in world politics by historicising where hierarchies come from, examining how diverse hierarchies are nested and intersect, and revealing how different actors navigate these hierarchies.

The League of Nations: A Chapter in World Politics.

1928 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
Wyndham A. Bewes ◽  
John Spencer Bassett
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations

scholarly journals The Supranational Dimension in Max Weber’s Vision of Politics

2019 ◽  
pp. 257-275
Author(s):  
Kari Palonen
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Imagination ◽  
World War ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Supranational Institutions

Max Weber analyzed politics from the perspective of Chancen for actors, and he never separated world politics from domestic politics. The “Westphalian balance” between great European powers shaped Weber’s views on international polity. However, he also regarded Western individualism, human rights, and parliamentary democracy as necessary qualities to possess in order to be recognized as a great power. This vision provided the basis for his wartime critique of the expansionist tendencies in German foreign policy and for his demand for the parliamentarization of German politics. After the end of World War I, Weber used Woodrow Wilson’s idea of the League of Nations as the basis for a proposal on new treaty legislation on war guilt. By doing so, he also identified chances for introducing supranational elements to world politics. The final part of the chapter applies a Weberian political imagination to the interpretation of the United Nations and the European Union as supranational institutions.

The Super-Powers at San Francisco

1946 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. R. Fox
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
New World ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Secondary Powers ◽  
World Organization

The Charter of San Francisco is the modest end-product of the mightiest collective literary effort in history. Fifty delegations, comprising literally thousands of principal and subordinate personnel, labored feverishly for two months to achieve agreement on a constitution for the new world security organization.1 In contrast, the Covenant of the League of Nations was drafted by one of the commissions of the Peace Conference of Paris, on which there sat two representatives of each of the five major powers and one representative from each of nine of the secondary powers. This group of nineteen men met fifteen times.2The very broad participation of the smaller powers in the San Francisco Conference is obviously not to be explained in terms of their growing influence in world politics. Although the number of prospective permanent seat-holders in die Council of the proposed world organization was the same at Paris and at San Francisco, there had been in the intervening quarter-century a reduction rather than an increase in the number of powers of greatest influence.

The Balance-Sheet of the League Experiment

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 537-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhart Niemeyer
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Comprehensive History

International Organization, no longer the exclusive preserve of dreamers and idealists, is now, for better or for worse, one of the palpable realities of world politics. Whether we choose to consider it our best hope or a snare and a delusion or something in between, we are compelled to reckon with its effects, one of which is the foreseeable cost of non-participation in it. Its characteristic features – public debate, parliamentary procedures and resolution, majorities and voting blocs – all have become instruments of undeniable and indeed often painful efficacy in international relations. A review conference for the purpose of evaluating the experience of the first ten years of Charter operations is scheduled for 1955. Meanwhile, institutional developments within the framework of the Charter occur constantly, and call for policy decisions based on a profound understanding of how this or that change is likely to affect the international scene. In this situation, the publication of the first comprehensive history of the League of Nations must be considered a significant event.

The Finances of the League of Nations

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Singer
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
World Politics ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
Voluntary Programs ◽  
Suez Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Upheaval

In their first full year of operation, the United Nations and the specialized agencies spent under $25 million; ten years later, in 1956, their total regular budgets were almost $85 million. In that same year the Suez crisis led to the creation of the Emergency Force and the clearing of the Canal, adding about $25 million to the 1957–1958 expenditures. During the past three years 22 governments joined the Organization, adding much to its operating costs but little to its coffers. With the Middle East still in turmoil, and social upheaval dominating world politics, there is increasing agitation for both a permanent UN Force and a drastically expanded economic assistance program. As the Organization seeks to grapple with an ever-mounting range of responsibilities, with the consequent shift from reliance on voluntary programs to regular budgetary outlays, it is quite likely that the estimated expenditures of over $98 million for the Organization and the agencies in 1958 will be doubled within the next five years.

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