The Making of a World Order

Albert Wu is an associate research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. Trained as a global historian, his work lies at the intersection of the histories of imperialism, religion, and medicine. He is the author of From Christ to Confucius: German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860–1950 (2016). Stephen W. Sawyer is the Ballantine-Leavitt Professor of History and Director of the Center for Critical Democracy Studies at the American University of Paris. He has published widely on French political and diplomatic history, including two books: Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880 (2018) and Adolphe Thiers: La contingence et le pouvoir (2018).

Introduction: A World Made and Unmade. Part I: Revisiting the “Peace” in Europe. 1 A Peace Falling Between Two Stools 2. A Century of French Historiography on the Treaty of Versailles 3. The Versailles Treaty and the German Imperial Mindscape: The Navy, the Colonial East, and the Impossible Peace in Postwar Germany. Part II: Peripheries of Peace? 4. Solving the Schleswig Question: Danish Agitation and International Reception of the Schleswig Plebiscite 5. International Women in National Politics: The Little Entente of Women and the Role of Self-Determination in East Central Europe in the Wake of 1919. 6. Unlikely Internationalists: Ottoman-Turkish Views on the League of Nations During the Paris Peace Conference Part III: China, A Missing Peace? 7 Chinese Interpretations of the Great War, the Versailles Peace, and “May Fourth”. 8. Local Networks With Global Reach: Sichuanese “Citizen-Journalists” Reporting From the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and the Formation of Public Opinion in China 9. The Meanings of the 1919 Moment in China: Sovereignty, Connectivity, and National Awakening. Part IV: The Birth of Global Governance. 10 Peace (Re)settlement: The Treaty of Versailles and the Reshaping of Global Migration Governance. 11. World War I, the Paris Peace Conference, and Conflicts Over Global Health Governance 12. Neoliberalism and Peace: Libéralisme Constructif and Global Governance after the First World War. Epilogue: The Unsettling Settlement of 1919