FreshEd #289 – The Meddlers (Jamie Martin)
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The League of Nations - Sovereignty and Autonomy
In the aftermath of the first world war, there's a very clear sense that this kind of highly interventionist financial governance was only going to be applied to certain kinds of states. Those who were powerful would not have the same type of foreign meddling by an institution like the League of Nations. So in other words, when we get back to the point about sovereignty and autonomy and foreign meddling, it was happening for states that were seen as less powerful globally. Some states are just going to be more sovereign than others, that this is a kind of inherent condition in the international system. It's a feature, not a bug.
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