Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War

Peter Jackson is Chair in Global Security at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of France and the Nazi Menace (2000), Beyond the Balance of Power (2014) and La France et la menace nazi (2017). He has taught, held fellowships and visiting appointments at Carleton University, Yale University, Aberystwyth University, the Institut d'études politiques (Paris) and the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. William Mulligan is Professor of History at University College Dublin. He has written widely about the First World War, including The Origins of the First World War (2017) and The Great War for Peace (2014). He has held visiting fellowships at the Institutes for Advanced Study in Princeton and Berlin. Glenda Sluga researches and teaches at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy, and of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Her previous publications include The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon (2021), and Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (2013).

1. Introduction Peter Jackson, William Mulligan, and Glenda Sluga; Part I. Ordering Concepts: 2. Vocabularies of self-determination in 1919: the co-constitution of race and gender in international law Sarah C. Dunstan; 3. Recasting the 'fabric of civilization': the Paris Peace Settlement and international law, Marcus M. Payk; 4. State sovereignty Leonard V. Smith; 5. The crisis of power politics Peter Jackson and William Mulligan; 6. The challenge of an absent peace in the French and British Empires after 1919 Martin Thomas; Part II. Institutions: 7. A 'new diplomacy'?: the Big Four and peacemaking, 1919 Alan Sharp; 8. The League of Nations: the creation and legitimisation of international civil service, Karen Gram-Skjoldager; 9. The enforcement of German disarmament and the international order of the 1920s Andrew Webster; 10. Planning for international financial order: the call for collective responsibility at the Paris Peace Conference Jennifer Siegel; 11. Raw materials and international order from the Great War to the crisis of 1920–1921 Jamie Martin; Part III. Actors and Networks: 12. The Great Conversation: a discussion on peace after the First World War Carl Bouchard; 13. An alternative international relations: socialists, socialist internationalism and the postwar order Talbot Imlay; 14. The Paris Peace Conference and the origins of global feminism Mona L. Siegel; 15. Colonial nationalists and the making of a new international order Erez Manela; Part IV. Counterpoint: 16. The persistence of old diplomacy: the Paris Peace Settlement in perspective T. G. Otte; Afterword: new histories of international order Glenda Sluga.