Introduction Why study the League of Nations?; Chapter 1: The League of Nations experiment and the quest for world order; Chapter 2: The League of Nations in time; Chapter 3: Foil or foundation? From League of Nations to United Nations; Chapter 4: Lost in transition? The hidden influence of the League of Nations; Chapter 5: The soul of the League and the crisis of liberal order; Chapter 6: Revitalizing liberal order; Select Bibliography
M. Patrick Cottrell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Linfield College in McMinnville, OR, USA. He is author of The Evolution and Legitimacy of International Security Institutions (2016) and numerous articles on topics ranging from global governance to international sport.