The Making of Peace :Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War

Publication subTitle :Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War

Author: Williamson Murray; Jim Lacey  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2008

E-ISBN: 9780511500725

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521517195

Subject: K1 World History

Keyword: 世界史

Language: ENG

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The Making of Peace

Description

The Making of Peace represents a fascinating contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. These essays examine how Western belligerents have addressed - or failed to address - the making of peace across a span of two and a half millennia and in contests reflecting a broad range of prompting disputes. Some efforts produced at best a momentary suspension of hostilities. Others transformed the very context of international relations. Defined more modestly, however, as the control and moderation of violence, some peacemaking efforts were notably more successful than others. This study also serves as a first draft of a guide for those who will confront the equally difficult task of maintaining the peace, once achieved. It contains path-breaking essays by leading historians of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Chapter

Conclusion

2 The Peace of Nicias

By land and by sea

The spartan disposition

The spartan alliance

The corinthian conundrum

Pericles' calculated risk

Grand strategy

The peace of nicias

3 "A swift and sure peace": the Congress of Westphalia 1643-1648

Pacifying the empire

Pomerania

Alsace, navarre, and lorraine

Outcome

4 The Peace of Paris, 1763

The past as future

Thinking of peace

The making of the treaty of paris

The unintended effects of peace making

Conclusion

5 In search of military repose: the Congress of Vienna and the making of peace

War and its environment

Background to the congress

The congress

The fallout

Conclusion

6 War and peace in the post-Civil War South

Conclusion

7 Vae victoribus: Bismarck’s quest for peace in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871

Conclusion

8 Versailles: the peace without a chance

The context of the war

The Outbreak of War

The Conduct of War and Military Necessity

The War’s End: March 1918–November 1918

The making of the european peace: versailles 1919

Russian and eastern european problems

The german problem

The failure of versailles and the coming of the second world war

9 "Building buffers and filling vacuums": Great Britain and the Middle East, 1914–1922

Traditional themes and changing circumstances

Recruiting the arabs

Syria and the sykes-picot agreement

Mesopotamia: the "forward" impetus

Palestine: racial, financial, and strategic reasoning

A new imperialism?

Reassembling the pieces and making the peace

The causes of failure

10 Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peace making, 1943–1949

Cold war studies

The argument

The cold war cometh

The historical context

Difficulties: thucydides was right

Conclusion: the cold war peace

11 The economic making of peace

Lend lease

Bretton woods

What of germany?

Japan's economic rebirth

Who lost china?

The british loan

Marshall plan: the genesis

Europe in need

Europe reacts

The marshall plan results

12 Ending the Cold War

Evaluating the cold war's end

Why the cold war ended

Unfinished business

America's war aims

The fall of the soviet union

New world disorder

The threat america missed

Conclusion

13 Conclusion: history and the making of peace

Index

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