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.”
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