The Versailles Treaty and its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision

The Versailles Treaty and its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision
ISBN-10
1139499483
ISBN-13
9781139499484
Category
Political Science
Language
English
Published
2011-09-26
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Authors
Norman A. Graebner, Edward M. Bennett

Description

This study, a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939, is a critique of the Paris Peace Conference and reflects the judgment shared by many who left the Conference in 1919 in disgust amid predictions of future war. The critique is a rejection of the idea of collective security, which Woodrow Wilson and many others believed was a panacea, but which was also condemned as early as 1915. This book delivers a powerful lesson in treaty-making and rejects the supposition that treaties, once made, are unchangeable, whatever their faults.

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