Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War

by Peter Jackson (Editor), William Mulligan (Editor), Glenda Sluga (Editor)

Overview

The Paris peace settlements following the First World War remain amongst the most controversial treaties in history. Bringing together leading inter-national historians, this volume assesses the extent to which a new international order, combining old and new political forms, emerged from the peace negotiations and settlements after 1918. Taking account of new historiographical perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of peacemaking after the First World War, it views the peace negotia-tions and settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the practice of international politics. The contributors address how a wide range of actors set out new ways of thinking about international order, established innovative institutions and revolutionised the conduct of inter-national relations. They illustrate the ways in which these innovations were layered upon existing practices, institutions and concepts to shape the emerging international order after 1918.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108827348
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/23/2025
Pages:	438
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Peter Jackson is Chair in Global Security at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of France and the Nazi Menace (2000), Beyond the Balance of Power (2014) and La France et la menace nazi (2017). He has taught, held fellowships and visiting appointments at Carleton University, Yale University, Aberystwyth University, the Institut d'études politiques (Paris) and the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne.

William Mulligan is Professor of History at University College Dublin. He has written widely about the First World War, including The Origins of the First World War (2017) and The Great War for Peace (2014). He has held visiting fellowships at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton and Berlin.

Glenda Sluga researches and teaches at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy, and of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Her previous publications include The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon (2021), and Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Peter Jackson, William Mulligan, and Glenda Sluga; Part I. Ordering Concepts: 2. Vocabularies of self-determination in 1919: the co-constitution of race and gender in international law Sarah C. Dunstan; 3. Recasting the 'fabric of civilization': the Paris Peace Settlement and international law, Marcus M. Payk; 4. State sovereignty Leonard V. Smith; 5. The crisis of power politics Peter Jackson and William Mulligan; 6. The challenge of an absent peace in the French and British Empires after 1919 Martin Thomas; Part II. Institutions: 7. A 'new diplomacy'?: the Big Four and peacemaking, 1919 Alan Sharp; 8. The League of Nations: the creation and legitimisation of international civil service, Karen Gram-Skjoldager; 9. The enforcement of German disarmament and the international order of the 1920s Andrew Webster; 10. Planning for international financial order: the call for collective responsibility at the Paris Peace Conference Jennifer Siegel; 11. Raw materials and international order from the Great War to the crisis of 1920–1921 Jamie Martin; Part III. Actors and Networks: 12. The Great Conversation: a discussion on peace after the First World War Carl Bouchard; 13. An alternative international relations: socialists, socialist internationalism and the postwar order Talbot Imlay; 14. The Paris Peace Conference and the origins of global feminism Mona L. Siegel; 15. Colonial nationalists and the making of a new international order Erez Manela; Part IV. Counterpoint: 16. The persistence of old diplomacy: the Paris Peace Settlement in perspective T. G. Otte; Afterword: new histories of international order Glenda Sluga.

Editorial Reviews

‘… a significant contribution to this emerging historiography on peacemaking and international order.’ Lloyd E. Ambrosius, H-Diplo

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