The Versailles Treaty and Its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107647480)

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
ISBN-10: 1107647487
ISBN-13: 9781107647480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2014
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d