POLS 3320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lutheran World Relief, Collective Security, Self-Determination
3 Dec 2017
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Week 4 - interstate violence and the politics of aid. From the league of nations of the united states: great power politics. The humanitarianism big bang: save the children - 1919, world university services -1920, plan international -1937, catholic relief - 1941, oxfam - 1942, care - 1943, lutheran world relief - 1945. Paris 1919: national sovereignty and the politics of self determination: the treaty of versailles. War apparitions - germany would have to pay allies back to repair the damage. New basis to determine statehood: self-determination. Language and ethnicity as the basis for statehood. A linguistic community can and should have the right to form a nation state: the league of nations. Collective security: signing on to a moral agreement that war is illegal - if anything happens they can intervene, (didn"t work very well) Wilsons 14 points: the mandate system. Sikes-picot and the people without history: the fragmentation of europe. French (and american) intransigence (ironically) empowering germany.
