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

ISBN-13: 9781107647480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 286 str.

Norman A. Graebner; Edward M. Bennett

Opis

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.