Description:
This book explores a set of diplomatic practices and principles that shaped international politics during the first half of the twentieth century. By considering these instruments as historical constructions serving various political ends, the chapters show how internationalists interacted with traditional diplomatic actors, thus blending new and old forms of diplomacy. To illustrate this process, the authors draw on a range of new archival evidence and consider understudied actors and venues, from Ethiopian diplomats to the League of Nations Assembly. What connects them is their attention to the ways in which internationalists sought to solve international problems at an international level by infiltrating established institutions at the highest level of political decision-making.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
By: Thomas W. Bottelier and Jan Stöckmann
Pages: 1–16
Chapter 1: Becoming national
Self-determination as a tool in international politics
By: Georgios Giannakopoulos
Pages: 17–34
Chapter 2: The League of Nations and the new uses of sovereignty
By: Lukas Schemper
Pages: 35–54
Chapter 3: Ascertaining the truth in Albania
Inquiry as a League of Nations instrument of international order
By: Quincy R. Cloet
Pages: 55–80
Chapter 4: The chemical weapons discourse as an instrument of international order
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War
By: Anneleen van der Meer
Pages: 81–103
Chapter 5: ‘Weapons misused by barbarous races'
Disarmament, imperialism and race in the interwar period
By: Daniel Stahl
Pages: 104–126
Chapter 6: Colonial policy and international control
The American Philippines and multilateral drug treaties, 1909–31
By: Eva Ward
Pages: 127–151
Chapter 7: In the eyes of the world
Media oversight and diplomatic practices at the League of Nations Assembly
By: Robert Laker
Pages: 152–176
Chapter 8: The League of Nations and the advisory opinion of the Permanent Court of International Justice as ‘preventive adjudication’?
By: Gabriela A. Frei
Pages: 177–197
Chapter 9: With or without the metropole
Deferred sovereignty as instrument of racial governance
By: Pablo de Orellana
Pages: 198–226
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