CUP has published a new book on
the British origins of the League of Nations.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In this innovative account of the
origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on
the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World
War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first
international organisation for peace. Combining international, social,
intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two
misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a
league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary
public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both
realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it
evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive
analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the
transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in
the twentieth century to the present.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sakiko Kaiga, University
of Tokyo
Sakiko Kaiga is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science,
University of Tokyo.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Precursors: Thinking about War
and Peace before 1914
2. The Use of Force to Prevent
War? The Bryce Group's Proposals for the Avoidance of War, 1914-15
3. Strategies for Winning Public
Opinion: The Success and the Loss of the League of Nations Society, 1915-17
4. A Transnational Movement? The
British and American Pro-League of Nations Groups, 1914-18
5. No Peace without Victory: The
League of Victorious Allies, 1917-18
Conclusion.
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