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The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith

The History of Development: From Western Origins to Global Faith

Chapter III

The third chapter of the book discussed two key topics: colonization and League of Nations. Firstly, I will discuss colonization.

Colonization

Colonization is a process of territorial expansion and population, which characterized by migration; occupation and exploitation of a geographical space, the trusteeship and political domination, cultural, religious and economic, even genocide, people who had previously established on this territory. Colonization, to differentiate from colonialism which is a doctrine or ideology, practiced by some States on other peoples or States then forced to accept bonds of dependency. It is a process expansionist occupation, which is the establishment of one or more colonies by placing under the influence of other foreign territories. When there is political domination of territory and subjugation of its people, we speak of imperialism on the part of the policy-making center called metropolis.

Turning to account of the colonies rest upon three pillars:

1.Colonialism pursues a commercial purpose. The nonstop growth of production and accrual of capital need unused outlets.

2.Superior Races have rights and duties towards lower races and must share with them the benefits of progress and science.

3.Colonization is necessary if France is to keep its place in the concert of nations and avoid the highroad to decay (Rist, 2009).

League of Nations

League of Nations was a worldwide association initiated by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It formulated during the period of the Paris Peace Conference in order to maintain the peace in Europe after the First World War. The objectives of the League included the disarmament, preventing war through the principle of collective security, conflict resolution through negotiation and the overall improvement in quality of life.

League of Nations was based on Geneva; it was substituted in 1945 by the United Nations. The League, including the United States are not members and who does not have its own military forces, considered a failure and cannot stop the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Nazism led to the Second World War (Cullather, 2010).

The major supporter of the League was the President Woodrow Wilson of the United States, earlier professor of political science at Princeton. According to his examination, the top secret diplomacy was the chief reason of World War I and the League of Nations became a disappointment. The 14th point Wilson is thus the foundation of this organization of nations. However, the U.S. Senate, contrasting the confirmation of the Versailles Treaty, vote in opposition to combination the League of Nations and the United States in no way supported it.

Diplomatic philosophy that led to the creation of the League represented a fundamental change in the thinking of preceding centuries. The Company has never had a military force of its own and, therefore, depended on the extraordinary powers for the implementation of its resolutions, either economic sanctions or the provision of troops if necessary. However, countries were very rarely willing to do.

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