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CCTL Transnational Legal History Group Book Talk – 'Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919' by Prof. Sakiko Kaiga
2025年3月28日
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm (HKT)
The Warren Chan Moot Court, CUHK Graduate Law Centre, 2/F, Bank of America Tower, Central / Online via Zoom
Prof. Sakiko Kaiga is an Associate Professor of History at the School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. As a historian of modern international relations, she specialises in ideas about security, democracy, liberal internationalism and international organisations. Her first monograph, Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-19 (Cambridge University Press, 2021), won the Peace History Society’s Scott Bills Memorial Prize in 2023. Currently, she is working on her second book project on the intellectual history of democracy and collective security in the League of Nations.
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13702631
Submission Deadline: 12:30pm (HKT), 27 March 2025
In this account of the origins of the idea of the League of Nations, Sakiko Kaiga casts new light on the pro-League of Nations movement in Britain in the era of the First World War, revealing its unexpected consequences for the development of the first international organisation for peace. Combining international, social and intellectual history and international relations, she challenges two misunderstandings about the role of the movement: that their ideas about a league were utopian and that its peaceful ideal appealed to the war-weary public. Kaiga demonstrates how the original post-war plan consisted of both realistic and idealistic views of international relations, and shows how it evolved and changed in tandem with the war. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the unknown origins of the League of Nations and highlights the transformation of international society and of ideas about war prevention in the early twentieth century, as well as some of the implications of that history for the present.
Language: English
*CPD credits are available upon application and subject to accreditation by the Law Society of Hong Kong (currently pending)
