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  2. Nation-building - Wikipedia

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    Nation-building is the process through which these majorities are constructed." [3] In Mylonas's framework, "state elites employ three nation-building policies: accommodation, assimilation, and exclusion." [4] Nation builders are those members of a state who take the initiative to develop the national community through government programs ...

  3. League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations (LN or LoN; French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃], SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. [1] It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

  4. Organisation of the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations had devoted serious attention to the question of international intellectual cooperation since its creation. The First Assembly (December 1920) recommended that the council should take action aiming at international organisation of intellectual work.

  5. Union of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Following World War I, the Union of South Africa was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles and became one of the founding members of the League of Nations. It was mandated by the League with the administration of South West Africa (now known as Namibia). South West Africa became treated in most respects as another province of the Union, but ...

  6. Collective security - Wikipedia

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    The provisions of the League of Nations Covenant represented a weak system for decision making and collective action. According to Palmer and Perking, they pointed failure of the United States to join the League of Nations and the rise of the Soviet Union outside the League as one of major reasons for its failure to enforce collective security ...

  7. United States and the League of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The American absence in the League of Nations did not prevent the nation from becoming an official member of the United Nations, formed at the conclusion of the Second World War. The United States was one of five permanent members of the Security Council, with the other four countries the USSR, France, Nationalist China, and Britain. [15]

  8. State formation - Wikipedia

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    State formation can include state-building and nation-building. Academic debate about various theories is a prominent feature in fields like anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science. [2] Dominant frameworks emphasize the superiority of the state as an organization for waging war and extracting resources.

  9. League of Nations Union - Wikipedia

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    The League of Nations Union (LNU) was an organization formed in October 1918 in Great Britain to promote international justice, collective security and a permanent peace between nations based upon the ideals of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was established by the Great Powers as part of the Paris Peace Treaties, the international ...