The Versailles Treaty And Its Legacy: The Failure Of The Wilsonian Vision

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.

• • Author: Norman A. Graebner, Edward M. Bennett
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Mar 06, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 286 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107647487
• • ISBN-13: 9781107647480