1st Edition

Democracy and Peace Making Negotiations and Debates 1815-1973

By Philip Towle Copyright 2000
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    Democracy and Peace Making is an invaluable and up-to-date account of the process of peace making, which draws on the most recent historical thinking. It 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
    * peace talks after the Korean War
    * the Paris Peace Accords of 1973.

    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

    Biography

    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).