Sakiko Kaiga - Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919

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Sakiko Kaiga 2021

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First published 2021

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This study originates with the events of 11 September 2001, which had strong impacts on many humanities and social science scholars of my generation. As a teenager who grew up in a country that embraced Article 9 and pacifist education that tended to argue that you should not support war under any circumstances, witnessing widespread support for the US military actions by the press, politicians and the public opinion of my home country left a striking impression. It led me to pursue an academic career, with a focus on how war has historically been regulated in international society and how people discussed it in the past.

This book is largely based on my PhD thesis submitted to the Department of War Studies, King s College London. The greatest debt undoubtedly goes to my PhD supervisor, Joe Maiolo, to whom I would like to express my gratitude and admiration both as a scholar and teacher. I have always been convinced that if I had not been lucky enough to be his supervisee, I could not have learned as much as I have and this book would not be as it is now. I am also deeply grateful to Patricia Clavin and Gaynor Johnson for constantly giving me generous, warm support that has helped me continue my research. For offering advice, encouragement, commentary on drafts of the manuscript and/or sharing unpublished work and sources, I would like to thank John Bew, Martin Ceadel, Hilary Davies, Seung-Young Kim, Hatsue Shinohara, Jan Stckmann, Takahiko Tanaka and Corinna Unger. For their valuable insight, I am particularly grateful to Michael Watson, Emily Sharp and the production team at Cambridge University Press. I would also like to thank the two anonymous readers of the manuscript for their encouraging and helpful comments, which strengthened the book.

I wish to acknowledge the institutions that have sponsored this project since I defended my thesis. I owe thanks to friends, colleagues and staff at each of these places. Special thanks must go to the Max Weber team of the European University Institute, who allowed me to spend a memorable and beautiful time in Florence, and to the Peace Research Institute at International Christian University, especially Norie Takazawa and Kei