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Outline historical development

• Kant - The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as far back as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch outlined the idea of a league of nations to control conflict and promote peace between states. Kant argued for the establishment of a peaceful world community, not in a sense of a global government, but in the hope that each state would declare itself a free state that respects its citizens and welcomes foreign visitors as fellow rational beings, thus promoting peaceful society worldwide.
• After 1815, Concert of Europe - After the Napoleonic wars, European powers established the Concert of Europe. This was the balance of power that existed in Europe from 1815 to the outbreak of World War I (1914), albeit with major alterations after the revolutions of 1848. It was a kind of European federation. The so-called eight Great Powers of Europe held several conferences to discuss international law and to protect the national boundaries as established in 1815.
• 1889 - Inter-Parliamentary Union - Formed by peace activists William Randal Cremer and Frédéric Passy. Of the 24 countries that had parliaments, a third served as members of the IPU by 1914. Its aims were to encourage governments to solve international disputes by peaceful means. Annual conferences were held.
• 1919–1946 - League of Nations - United States President Woodrow Wilson promoted the idea of the League as a means of avoiding any repetition of the bloodshed of the First World War. Its primary goals included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions. The League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s. Germany withdrew from the League, as did Japan, Italy, Spain and others. The onset of the Second World War showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war.

External links

• United Nations Wikipedia

Videos

• United Nations Exposed - Part 1 According to the makers of this videos: "The truth behind the U.N. The U.N. was created for nothing other than creating a powerful world government. Watch these videos and learn the true U.N."