The League and the world: how and why the League of Nations became the centre of world economic statistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction – The League of Nations experience: Overlapping readings 1
5. A contentious idea
6. The Institut de Droit International’s response to the birth of the League of Nations 25
7. The League of Nations or European federation: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s decade of debate over a “United States of Europe,” 1923–1933 43
8. Hopes and aspirations
9. Korea and the League of Nations: from Versailles to the Manchurian Crisis, 1919–1933 67
10. The accession of British colonies to the League of Nations and the “Third” British Empire 95
11. The membership of the Executive Council: Portugal’s highest aspiration in the League of Nations 123
12. Decentering the view
13. Plowshares into swords: The League of Nations as a weapon of internationalist war 145
14. Survived on sufferance: Social policy, the ILO and the new “World Organisation,” 1941–1945 171
15. A plethora of varied initiatives
16. The Information Section of the League of Nations: An experiment in organising communication in international relations 199
17. The League and the world: how and why the League of Nations became the centre of world economic statistics 223
18. The fight against the trafficking of women and minors before and within the League of Nations: A path to legitimacy for European voluntary associations 249
19. Abstracts 275
20. List of contributors 279
21. Index 285