The Geneva Protocol

The peace treaties promised that Germany’s disarmament would be only the beginning of a worldwide reduction in arms. Years later, David Hunter Miller asks what could make that promise more than paper.

Writing in the League of Nations era after the First World War, Miller examines the 1924 Protocol of Geneva, a proposed treaty that links disarmament to security rather than treating them as separate aims. Its bargain is ambitious: states would develop peaceful ways to settle disputes and condemn aggressive war, making it safer to limit their armaments. But signatures alone would not bind them; the Protocol’s force depended on ratification and the adoption of a plan for reducing arms. Miller approaches this intricate document as an international lawyer, tracing what its obligations would mean among nations—and beyond them. Could a legal promise provide the security disarmament requires?

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