Geopolitical interests in the Corfu incident and the peaceful resolution of disputes in the context of the league of the nations

Abstract

The establishment of the League of Nations constituted the cornerstone
and the crowning achievement of the Peace Treaties, which ended the First
World War. The union of the states of the time, which was based on the
common wish to establish a permanent peace after four consecutive years of
war, was the inspiration of the American President Wilson, who believed that
the pre-existing European security system, the Directorate of the Great Powers, constituted the basic cause for the war. The Corfu Incident presents
special research interest and is important for the drawing of useful
conclusions, as it was the first incident that surfaced the inherent weaknesses
of the new and promising system of collective security, established by the
League of Nations. Mainly because the dispute that arose between two
disproportionate in power states —Greece and Italy— pointed out the weakness of the new collective security system to resolve disputes using law as a
base. The weak Greece, a victim of fascism, as this was expressed by Mussolini, was considered the victimizer by the League of Nations because of the
strong pressure exercised by Italy to the League of Nations.