Democracy and Peace Making surveys the post-war
peace settlements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the Vienna Congress of 1815, the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlements of the Second World War, the peace talks after the Korean war and the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. These negotiations have been chosen because of their
intrinsic historical importance for what they reveal about the effects of the development of democracy, nationalism and
secularisation on the process of peace-making, which had radically altered since the time of the French Revolution. Peace makers had to contend with the contradictions and difficulties caused by the contrast between the new democratic way of negotiation and debate, and the traditional attitudes of pre-1789 European conferences when it was rare for the government of a major European state to be replaced at the victors' insistence, for indemnities to be imposed or for there to
be any consideration for the self-determination of peoples involved. Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable up-to-date account of the process of peace making and draws on the
most recent historical thinking.
By:
Philip Towle
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780415214711
ISBN 10: 0415214718
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 August 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Introduction 2 Whigs and Tories in 1815: imposing a government 3 Bismarck and Favre in 1870: nationality and territory 4 Kitchener, Milner, Smuts and De Wet in 1902: surrender and reconciliation 5 Witte and Komura in 1905: indemnities and exactions 6 Lloyd George and Foch in 1919: the destruction of militarism 7 The British debates in 1919 and 1933: victory in battle, defeat in the mind 8 Hitler and Churchill in 1942: objectives in war 9 Bishops, lawyers and war crimes trials 1210 Turner Joy and Nam Il in 1952: prisoners of war or hostages? 11 Cabot Lodge and Tran Buu Kiem in Paris in 1969: compromise and surrender 12 and peacemaking
Philip Towle is Reader in International Relations at the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His previous publications include Enforced Disarmament: From Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf (Clarendon, 1997).
