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Dismantling the League of Nations: The Quiet Death of an International Organization, 1945-8
by Jane Mumby
Bloomsbury Academic
2024. ix + 252 pp.
(e-book (pdf)), ISBN 978-1-350-37690-8;
(e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-37692-2
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Reviewed by Madeleine Dungy
Today, as multilateral organizations are coming under strain, it has become clear that we lack insight into the processes through which they might be streamlined, (…)
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