The transnational dream: Politicians, diplomats and soldiers in the League of Nations' pursuit of international disarmament, 1920–1938
Webster, A.ORCID: 0000-0002-9727-9516
(2005)
The transnational dream: Politicians, diplomats and soldiers in the League of Nations' pursuit of international disarmament, 1920–1938.
Contemporary European History, 14
(4).
pp. 493-518.
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Abstract
The pursuit of disarmament was central to the work of the League of Nations throughout its existence, but it was a relatively small and consistent set of national representatives who sat on the many bodies created to deal with the issue. Unfortunately, the gradual development of a sense of ‘transnational’ community among these delegates was never able to overcome the more powerful imperatives of national self-interest. Disarmament was always tied too closely to the issue of security for the individual governments of the major powers to view it from anything other than a strictly national strategic perspective.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Murdoch Affiliation(s): | School of Humanities |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Copyright: | 2005 Cambridge University Press |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/23953 |
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