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.

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

9781108830508, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 June 2023

320 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.9 cm, 0.79 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: International relations [JPS], Military history [HBW], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], General & world history [HBG]