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Record Nr.

UNINA9910962557503321

Autore

Graebner Norman A.

Titolo

The Versailles Treaty and its legacy : the failure of the Wilsonian vision / / Norman A. Graebner, Edward M. Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22193-5

1-139-12501-X

1-283-31638-2

9786613316387

1-139-12357-2

1-139-12848-5

1-139-11346-1

1-139-11782-3

0-511-83516-7

1-139-11565-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

940.3/141

Soggetti

Security, International

International relations

World politics - 1919-1932

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The international order on trial -- The road to Paris : 1917-1918 -- Versailles : a study in arrogance -- The retreat to Utopia -- Manchuria and the triumph of non-recognition -- The rise of Hitler -- Challenge of the dictators -- The elusive response -- Munich : the continuing escape from reality -- The road to Prague -- The Soviet quest for collective security -- The coming of war : 1939.

Sommario/riassunto

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.