What ideas about world peace were behind the formation of the League of Nations, and can they ever hope to be fulfilled?

The League of Nations Union (the League) was established in 1918 to "promote international cooperation and to achieve international peace and security" and operated until 1945. The unprecedented slaughter of the 'war to end all wars' was the impetus for a diversion from the realist approach to relations between states towards an idealist conception, which applies liberal theory to international relations. The League worked towards collective security, multilateral disarmament, recognised and respected international law, and world government …

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