The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

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In spite of a spirited campaign of opposition coordinated by the America First Committee, Lend-Lease passed both houses of Congress by a sizeable margin in early March. Especially puzzling is the authors’ categorisation of Belgium as one of the world’s ten largest states in area in 1816, when it was still only a part of the newly-established Kingdom of the Netherlands. Notoriously, the First World War began with a powerful state dismissing a treaty as a scrap of paper.

Whatever happened in that year concerned other European powers rather than Nigerians, and was only a stage in a process of British acquisition of many different territories, which began with the annexation of Lagos in 1861, and was still going on when these were consolidated into the new entity of Nigeria on 1 January 1914. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

The figure’s purpose is to highlight the end of empire and the vast increase in the world’s area occupied by newly independent states since the Second World War. In 2014-2015, she served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel for National Security Law at the U. It is economic, political and military alliances which decide what atrocities get talked about and where. Even the staunchest opponents of intervention accepted that the country had no choice but to go to war, and within days the America First Committee disbanded.

Women, since it was mainly women who bought food, ‘took the lead in the sugar boycotts that accompanied the abolitionist campaigns of the 1790s, aimed at slave-grown sugar’. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed on August 27, 1928, among Germany, the United States, and France.Anti-interventionists protested, claiming that this ran the risk of subjecting American vessels to submarine attack. The Republic of China, as the legal government of the whole country, occupied the Chinese seat at the United Nations and on the Security Council until 1971. At this point they refer to ‘the present era’ and ‘our current world’, but if that era began with Lauterpacht’s formulations of 1945-9, then it has to include the Cold War. Internationalists gives a thoroughgoing account of the Pact’s coming to fruition and some of its underappreciated effects.