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Collective Security and the Italo‐Ethiopian Dispute Before the League of Nations
Author(s) -
Wemlinger Cherri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/pech.12123
Subject(s) - historiography , league , ideology , globe , interwar period , event (particle physics) , public opinion , law , political science , history , political economy , economic history , sociology , world war ii , politics , medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy , ophthalmology
This article examines unofficial correspondence sent to the L eague of N ations during the I talo‐ E thiopian D ispute (1934–1938), which was one of a number of events in the interwar period that contributed to public concerns about collective security. The official record concerning the I talo‐ E thiopian D ispute provides a sterile picture that belies the evidence in the documents considered in this article, which reveal the concern it generated around the globe. The examination of these archival documents shows that the concern for peace transcended ideological differences and changes the story of the interwar years, L eague historiography, and the D ispute by revealing how ordinary people understood the events. Much of L eague historiography has focused on its ultimate failure to maintain world peace. Exploration of world opinion as it related to the D ispute exposes how seriously global citizens took the event as a threat to international security and supplements existing historiography.