Du coton traditionnel au coton colonial, le coup de force du progrès (Nord-Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…As a country under mandate from the League of Nations, Cameroun first didn’t have to participate in the development of colonial cotton production. …”
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Historical Significance of the Spanish Neutrality in the First World War by I. Y. Mednikov

“…This benevolence towards the future winners and a wide humanitarian campaign supported and headed by the King Alfonso XIII enabled Spain to improve her position in the postwar system of international relations; Spain became one of the non-permanent members of the League of Nations Council. Nevertheless the Spanish neutrality had a negative impact upon the social, political and economical evolution of Spain. …”
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Pérou : le rêve de l’Etat-nation des intellectuels de la génération de 1900 by Patricia Salinas Desmond

“…These young intellectuals dreamed to create ideal modern and liberal democracy, a society of responsible citizens, a developed economy, which would participate of the league of nations. Some of them, besides, have taken part in a partial modernization of the civil service and the functioning of the state. …”
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Imperial Questions and Social Identities by Lauren Banko

“…These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations and post-World War I treaties. The article analyses how the development of new social and political understandings of identity was shaped by both the British legislators and the Arabic-speaking national leadership in Palestine. …”
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FORMATION OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATION OF POPULATION MIGRATION PROCESSES DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ESSAY by Oleksandr Havrylenko

“…With certain caveats, we can single out three main stages of this process: 1) the preparatory stage of the functioning of the League of Nations, when the international legal foundations for regulating the status of refugees in general were laid; 2) the stage of improvement of the international legal basis for solving migration problems (without specifically distinguishing migration for environmental reasons), which chronologically covered the second half of the 40s - the beginning of the 70s of the last century; 3) the stage of development of international legal acts, which already reflect an understanding of the relationship between acute environmental problems and migration processes, as well as provide for certain measures aimed at protecting the rights of environmental migrants. …”
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The Millenium of Lithuania: Two Eliminated Alternatives by Alfredas Bumblauskas

“… The article considers the following two events in the history of Lithuania of the 19th-20th century from the point of view of the conception of alternative history formulated by Alexander Demandt: 1) the fatal meeting with the last King and Grand Duke of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Stanislaw August Poniatowski held in Warsaw on 23 July 1792, in which the decision was taken to put up no more resistance to the Russo-Polish War - everything was determined by a seven-to-five majority of votes; 2) on 24 December 1921, the Government of Lithuania informed the League of Nations that it refused the proposed Paul Hymans' second project on Vilnius, though on the 4th of November 1921 the political elite of Lithuania spoke in support of that project. …”
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East Asian expatriate football players and national team success: Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean players in Europe (2000–2024) by Le Luo, Yangke Tang, Xiaohan Li, Ge Sun, Enkai Guo, Hanbing Xu

“…The results demonstrated a significant correlation between the number of expatriate players, particularly in top-tier leagues, and national team rankings. Notably, Japanese and South Korean players exhibited longer durations of participation and higher rates of advancement to elite European leagues compared to Chinese players. …”
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