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Abstract
Why did the League of Nations ultimately fail to achieve widespread disarmament, its most fundamental goal? This article shows that the failure of the League of Nations had two important dimensions: (1) the failure to provide adequate security guarantees for its members (like an alliance); (2) the failure of this organization to achieve the disarmament goals it set out in the 1920s and 1930s. Thus, it was doomed from the outset to fail, due to built-in institutional contradictions. It can also be modeled and analyzed as a potential military alliance. The results are fairly conclusive: The League of Nations did not function as a pure public-good alliance, which encouraged an arms race in the 1930s.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Title
Why did the League of Nations fail?
Author
Eloranta, Jari
Pages
27-52
Publication year
2011
Publication date
Jan 2011
ISSN
18632505
e-ISSN
18632513
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
821837232
Copyright
Springer-Verlag 2011