Tagged: World War II

The League is Dead, Long Live the League!

It has been a hundred years since the establishment of the League of Nations, the first world-wide intergovernmental organization that aimed at promoting world peace. As conflicts have a constructive consequence, the League was...

Vulnerable Japan Remembers a Bitter Defeat

This week marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. Victorious countries proudly remember the heroism and sacrifice of their soldiers. But in Japan, where the war brought devastation to Hiroshima...

European Appeasement Is Alive and Well

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The word “appeasement” evokes dark memories of the Munich 1938 agreement, in which Britain and France made far-reaching concessions to the aggressive German Nazi state in order to avoid violent conflict. The betrayed...