An Evil for All Concerned

Great Britain and Minority Protection after 1919

Bibliographic Data

ID10074802
AuthorsPatrick Finney (0000-0003-2103-478X, corresponding author), Patrick B Finney
Year1995
Volume30
Issue3
Pages533-551
Publication date1995-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002200949503000308
OpenAlexW1983056030
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited2

of the great powers towards the whole question of minority protection, which is curious given the general consensus that in other respects - notably that of collective security - the League was little more than the sum of its parts, with the success of its activities almost wholly dependent upon the will of the powers. This article attempts to go some way towards rectifying this omission by examining the attitudes towards minority problems and minority protection - especially in the Balkans - held by policy-makers in Great Britain, arguably the most powerful state on earth in the postwar period and certainly the one upon whom the burden of making the League work rested most heavily. In the early stages of the peace-making process after the Great War, the Allied powers decided that some sort of provision would have to be made for the protection of minority rights.2 The peace settlement was nominally to be based on the principle of national self-determination, but this could not be applied universally: selfdetermination was theoretically a perpetually disintegrating pro

Business · Collective security · Foreign policy · Law and economics · League · Minority rights · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · Sociology · State (computer science · Work (physics · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Engineering · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact

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