Peacemaking and international order after the First World War
This volume reinterprets the peace settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the making of international order.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | World War, 1914-1918 International organization Peace-building Diplomacy World politics Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (440 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This volume reinterprets the peace settlements after 1918 as a site of remarkable innovations in the making of international order. 1 Introduction -- The Problem of International Order -- The Historiographical Context -- The Post-1918 International Order -- Experiencing War, Thinking Peace -- The Politics of the New International Order -- The Discursive Logics of a New International Order -- New Sites of International Order -- Part I Ordering Concepts -- 2 Vocabularies of Self-Determination in 1919: The Co-Constitution of Race and Gender in International Law -- Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau and the Promises of Self-Determination -- Appeals to Wilsonianism -- Gender, the Peace and Claims to Self-Determination -- Suffrage, Plebiscites and the Question of Capacity -- The Legal Legacies of the 'Wilsonian Moment' -- 3 Recasting the 'Fabric of Civilisation': The Paris Peace Settlement and International Law -- Three Understandings of International Law -- 'A Future Regime in International Relations'? -- The Normative Coherence of the Peace Settlement -- Conclusion -- 4 State Sovereignty -- The Wilsonian Imperium -- From Bolshevik Imperium to Bolshevik Imperial State -- The Successor State -- Conclusion: Lights That Failed? -- 5 The Crisis of Power Politics -- Power Politics and International Order, 1860-1914 -- The Great War and the Crisis of Power Politics -- Power and Principle in the European Peace Settlement -- Power Politics and the Extra-European Settlement -- The Strategy of the Powerless: Germany in 1919 -- Conclusion -- 6 The Challenge of an Absent Peace in the French and British Empires after 1919 -- Empires and the First World War -- Imperial Crisis and International Order -- The Continued Absence of Legal Protection -- Mandates and Minorities -- 1919: A Bounded International Order -- Conclusions -- Part II Institutions. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (440 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108908535 1108908535 9781108830508 1108830501 |