League of Nations

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The last of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points called for the establishment of ‘a general association of nations … under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike’ (Wilson and Shaw 470; Fourteen Points of Wilson [1918]). The League of Nations (‘League’) was to be that ‘general association of nations’. It marks the international community’s first attempt to establish an international organization with permanent institutions for the purpose of...
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMax Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
EditorsRudiger Wolfrum
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date09.2006
ISBN (print)0199689652, 978-0199689651
Publication statusPublished - 09.2006
Externally publishedYes

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