Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- A note on the footnotes and bibliography
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 The wider challenges
- 2 Wilson, Lloyd George and the quest for a ‘peace to end all wars’
- 3 The ill-founded peace of 1919
- 4 The escalation of Europe's post-Versailles crisis, 1920–1923
- Part I The Anglo-American stabilisation of Europe, 1923–1924
- Part II Europe's nascent Pax Anglo-Americana, 1924–1925
- Part III The unfinished transatlantic peace order: the system of London and Locarno, 1926–1929
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
- Map: Post-World War I Europe after the peace settlement of Versailles
- Bibliography
- Index
Part I - The Anglo-American stabilisation of Europe, 1923–1924
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- A note on the footnotes and bibliography
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 The wider challenges
- 2 Wilson, Lloyd George and the quest for a ‘peace to end all wars’
- 3 The ill-founded peace of 1919
- 4 The escalation of Europe's post-Versailles crisis, 1920–1923
- Part I The Anglo-American stabilisation of Europe, 1923–1924
- Part II Europe's nascent Pax Anglo-Americana, 1924–1925
- Part III The unfinished transatlantic peace order: the system of London and Locarno, 1926–1929
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
- Map: Post-World War I Europe after the peace settlement of Versailles
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The making of the ‘unfinished transatlantic peace order’ between 1923 and 1925 was a process initiated by decisionmakers in Whitehall and Washington. Thus, to gauge what stabilisation was achieved in Europe after World War I – and why – one has to understand first the policies developed by Britain and the United States to overcome the Ruhr crisis and recast Franco-German relations. Their impact then has to be traced in the wider context of a no longer Eurocentric but Euro-Atlantic postwar system, which was significantly altered through the 1924 London conference. The crucial question became how far leading policymakers could change the underlying rules, and conditions, of international politics – and how far they could not only reform the brittle ‘order’ of Versailles but also lay the foundations for a durable, and legitimate, system of international politics where none had been before.
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- The Unfinished Peace after World War IAmerica, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919–1932, pp. 77 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006