Australians at Geneva - Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years

Cotton, James
Australians at Geneva - Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years

Australians at Geneva - Internationalist Diplomacy in the Interwar Years

Cotton, James

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Can Australians find their feet within the world's diplomatic manoeuvring?

After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism, fascism and World War II. It has understandably been overshadowed by the United Nations - that larger, more globally representative body that grew from the League and was founded on more unequivocally noble principles in the aftermath of a clear-cut victory of good over evil.
But as the limitations of the United Nations become ever more apparent, we can look with more sympathy at the League and consider what we might learn from the endeavours of those driving this first attempt at global governmental coordination.
As James Cotton relates in this illuminating account, a surprising number of Australians lent their talents and enthusiasm to this internationalist project, and Australian interests were prominently represented. Former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was there, along with numerous other Australian men and women who made important contributions to international deliberations on questions of global organisation and interaction. This deeply researched and carefully realised story will recast understandings of both the League itself and the place within it of prominent interwar Australian internationalists.

Author:   Cotton, James
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522878998


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
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Can Australians find their feet within the world's diplomatic manoeuvring?

After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the interwar years, the League of Nations is mainly remembered as a body that failed to create mechanisms that might have forestalled the horrors of Nazism, fascism and World War II. It has understandably been overshadowed by the United Nations - that larger, more globally representative body that grew from the League and was founded on more unequivocally noble principles in the aftermath of a clear-cut victory of good over evil.
But as the limitations of the United Nations become ever more apparent, we can look with more sympathy at the League and consider what we might learn from the endeavours of those driving this first attempt at global governmental coordination.
As James Cotton relates in this illuminating account, a surprising number of Australians lent their talents and enthusiasm to this internationalist project, and Australian interests were prominently represented. Former Prime Minister Stanley Bruce was there, along with numerous other Australian men and women who made important contributions to international deliberations on questions of global organisation and interaction. This deeply researched and carefully realised story will recast understandings of both the League itself and the place within it of prominent interwar Australian internationalists.

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Author:   Cotton, James
Publisher:   Melbourne University Press
ISBN:  

9780522878998


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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