The Geneva Protocol

David Hunter Miller’s The Geneva Protocol is a lucid, authoritative study that unpacks the legal and diplomatic struggles behind the 1924 Protocol of Geneva and the early League of Nations. Combining politics and war stories, Miller traces how states wrestled with collective security, treaties against aggression, sanctions, and the mechanisms meant to prevent war in the volatile interwar years. Carefully written as a legal analysis, the book examines how the Protocol came into force, who the signatories were, relations inter se, the status quo doctrine, domestic implications, and contentious issues like the Japanese amendment, separate defensive agreements, and Article Ten of the Covenant. Miller also addresses international disputes, demilitarized zones, the Disarmament Conference, and the thorny question of applying the Protocol to non-signatories—offering context on why these debates mattered to global stability after World War I. Ideal for listeners interested in political history, international law, and military diplomacy, this audiobook gives historians, policy students, and anyone fascinated by war-era statecraft a clear, engrossing account of a pivotal moment in efforts to outlaw aggression and create lasting security.