NEU: #WerkstattGeschichte 92 »prekäres wissenschaften«!
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Wie sich akademische Machtverhältnisse & #Patronage im frühen 20. Jh. in einem universitätsnahen internationalen Arbeitsumfeld auswirkten und selbst beim #Völkerbund klare Regeln für Stellenbesetzungen aushebelten, zeigt Jonathan Voges am Beispiel eines Instituts in Paris:
▶ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-92-jonathan-voges
#Histodons #IntellectualCooperation #LeagueOfNations #Internationalisierung
Granted, some areas of #InternationalLaw are working fine. Nearly all countries honour treaties on the allocation of radio frequencies & satellite orbits, just as nearly all motorists drive on the correct side of the road.…
But when it comes to #HumanitarianLaw, there is no consensus. The high-minded principles that led the #LeagueOfNations to set up the first world court, in the hope that “law & justice” would trump “diplomatic expediency”, are clashing with the hard reality of #geopolitics.
📗 Aurora Almada e Santos and Yvette Santos edited the book "The League of Nations Experience. Overlapping Readings", that gathers a 'multitude of interpretations' which point to some 'promising avenues' for research on the #LeagueOfNations.
👉 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111063973
#Histodons #Multilateralism #PoliticalHistory #InternationalRelations #Diplomacy #Multilateralismo #RelaçõesInternacionais #Diplomacia #HistóriaPolítica #SociedadeDasNações
Japan emerges as a major player among world powers as their ambassadors helped finalize the postwar treaties and create a new international body meant to stop large-scale wars before they began: The League of Nations. However, trouble continued brewing on the Korean Peninsula as a new mass movement for national liberation took to the streets.