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The War Of The World War I

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For centuries, governments dreamed and had an almost universal hope, about the raise of inter-state systems, to preserve peace amongst potentially antagonistic states;
Unfortunately, what statesmen had not imagined was that the world had to witness to the slaughter of the First World War to achieve such dream.
However, precisely because of the the devastation and chaos caused by the war, the establishment of a general association of states was crucial, and needed to be constructed as quickly as possible.
In addition, as World War I pointed out a fundamental flaw in The Balance of Power System, therefore, its malfunctions could no longer be considered tolerable and appropriate as the basis for international security (Nye, Welch, 2013: …show more content…

(Henig, Ruth. 2010:8)
However, it was the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, which confirmed that European diplomacy lacked any organised machinery for international co-operation.
In the first decade of the 20th century; with the crucial urgency and the insistence of the President of the US, Wilson, who repeatedly proposed such an organization through his so-called Fourteen Points, an overall framework of the League was rising.
At the beginning of 1919, during a session of The Paris Peace Conference, the creation of the League became an ‘integral part’ of a peace treaty; and finally, after innumerable negotiations, with the Treaty of Versailles, the 28 of June 1919, the League of Nations arise, with 41 members, holding their first meeting the 16 of January 1920 in Paris.
With this coalition, all the great nations and some medium-sized powers, would have gathered to ensure security and to create a mechanism to prevent, resolve, or stop disputes and wars. Most importantly, the League also introduced “the collective security”, a system to guarantee the territorial integrity and political independence of the states involved; where both economic and military sanctions would have been used, by the members of the league, to compel states to interrupt any dispute.

In substance, under the collective security arrangement, non aggressive countries would

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