1st Edition

War in Spain Appeasement, Collective Insecurity, and the Failure of European Democracies Against Fascism

By David Jorge Copyright 2021
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This work covers the international importance of the War in Spain through the two organizations that marked the multilateral action towards the conflict: The League of Nations and the Non-Intervention Committee. France and the United Kingdom diverted both deliberations as well as decision-making processes and mechanisms from Geneva. Non-intervention was appeasement’s specific variable applied... Read more

1. The League of Nations faces the progressive crisis of the interwar period; 

2. The deceiving calm of Lake Léman: Manchuria, Abyssinia, the Rhineland; 

3. The abandonment of the Spanish Republic by the European democracies; 

4. The consolidation of the War in Spain; 

5. Negrín and the conception of an international war; 

6. The resistance of Negrín, between Nazi expansionism and appeasing alternatives; 

7. Appeasement/non-intervention/appeasement on the road to a new world war

Biography

David Jorge (Lugo, Spain, 1987–) is Professor at El Colegio de México. With a PhD in History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he has taught at Wesleyan University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Universidad del Mar-Huatulco, and El Colegio de México.