League of Nations

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• 12/4/2022
  

  Can the World Stop Imperialist War?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  It's past time to finish the halting progress made a century ago to rally international cooperation against imperial aggression. The stakes are too high to leave peace in the hands of individual nations. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  3/3/2022
  

  Sanctions are an Economic Weapon. Targeting Matters

  by Nicholas Mulder

  The Biden approach shows a reframing of economic sanctions from being a deterrent to being a non-military weapon of war. This has happened before, and history shows that sanctions against an aggressor nation can be expected to fail unless they are paired with aid to Ukraine.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  1/25/2021
  

  How Versailles Still Haunts the World

  by Joanne Randa Nucho

  Anthropologist Joanne Randa Nucho and Public Books present a virtual forum on the ongoing legacies and impacts of the Treaty of Versailles. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/21/19
  

  The Last Time America Turned Away From the World

  by John Milton Cooper

  The unknown story behind Henry Cabot Lodge’s campaign against the League of Nations.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  11-15-15
  

  Columbia professor Susan Pedersen wins prize for history of the League of Nations

  She won a $75,000 prize for her book, “The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire.”