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Author:   Patrick O. Cohrs (Università degli Studi, Florence)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 6.60cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   1.720kg
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9781107117976

ISBN 10:   1107117976
Pages:   1130
Publication Date:   12 May 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of maps; Introduction; Part I. Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?: The Wider Pre-History of the Great War. The Involution of International Politics at the Dawn of the Long 20th Century: 1. Peace through equilibrium. The 19th century's Vienna system - and its disintegration; 2. Transformation and corrosion. The turn towards power politics and global imperialist competition in the formative decades of the long 20th century; 3. The ascent of an exceptionalist world power. The American special path and ephemeral aspirations for an Atlantic order of empires; 4. Counterforces - and first visions of a novel transatlantic peace. Internationalist aspirations to overcome imperialist power politics before 1914; 5. The unavoidable war? Long and short roads to the catastrophe of 1914; Part II. The Greatest War - and No Peace Without Victory: The Impact of the First World War, Competing Visions of Peace and the Struggle over the Shape of a New - Atlantic - World Order: 6. Tectonic changes. The consequences of the war and the transformation of the transatlantic constellation; 7. The political and ideological war within the war . The transatlantic competition over the shape of the postwar order; 8. No peace without victory - and the making of the frail Atlantic armistice of November 1918; 9. No prospects for a lasting peace? The urgent and the systemic challenges of peacemaking and the need for a new Atlantic order; Part III. Reorientations and Incipient Learning Processes: The Dominant - Atlantic - Approaches to Peace and Order after the Great War: 10. Towards a progressive Atlantic peace of the victors. The reorientation of American approaches to peace and international order; 11. The search for a new equilibrium - and an Atlantic concert. The reorientation of British approaches to peace and international order; 12. The search for security and an Atlantic alliance of the victors. The reorientation of French approaches to peace and international order; 13. A new beginning? German pursuits of a Wilsonian peace of justice and first steps towards an Atlanticist foreign policy; Part IV. No Pax Atlantica : The First Attempt to Found a Modern Atlantic Order - and its Frustration: 14. An impossible peace? The incomplete transatlantic peacemaking process of 1919; 15. Novel superstructure of a new Atlantic order? The struggle to found the League of Nations and the limitations of the covenant of 1919; 16. No just peace without security. The pivotal German settlement and the struggle to found a new Atlantic security system; 17. The eastern frontiers - and limits - of the new order. Self-determination, the critical Polish-German question and the wider challenges of reorganising Eastern Europe; 18. A formative threat? The Western powers and the Bolshevik challenge; 19. The political and moral stakes of reparations - and the limited advances towards a new Atlantic economic order; 20. The imposed peace. The missed opportunity of a negotiated settlement with Germany?; 21. The truncated Atlantic peace order of 1919 - a re-appraisal; Part V. Epilogue: The Political Consequences of the Peace: The Challenges after Versailles and the Making of the Unfinished Atlantic Peace of the 1920s: 22. Peace undermined. The divergent outlooks of the victors, the consequences of Wilson's defeat and the escalation of Europe's postwar crisis; 23. Towards a new order. Constructive learning processes and the construction of an Atlantic peace beyond Versailles; 24. The remarkable consolidation of the nascent Pax Atlantica of the 1920s - and its dissolution under the impact of the world economic crisis; Part VI. Final Perspectives - the Cadmeian Peace: 25. The eventual creation of the long 20th century's Atlantic order after 1945 and the crucial lessons of the era of the First World War; Bibliography.

Reviews

'In this opus magnum Patrick Cohrs presents an original and thought-provoking re-appraisal of the transformation of world politics between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. This is a compelling book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how challenging it was to create a stable international order after the 20th century's crucial cataclysm, how the key actors struggled to build a durable peace, and how the consequences of what they thought and did still shape the world of the 21st century.' Paul W. Schroeder, author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 'This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a long twentieth century. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.' Jurgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World 'An important book that recasts debates about European and global disorder after the First World War in a longer history of Atlantic world-order making since 1860. Advancing the case that the Paris Peace Conference produced an international 'system' that sought to address the question of German power and its place in the world, this new history also offers insights for contemporary debates on the question of China and the prospects for regional and global order in the present disorderly context of the 21st Century.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 'Patrick Cohrs's new grand narrative reappraises great-power relations from the late nineteenth century across World War I and the postwar treaties to argue that durably bringing peace to Europe would ultimately require an Atlantic system that both reconciled Germany and durably engaged the United States. The reader will find a major reassessment of the peace that might have been and a challenging diagnosis of what sadly prevented it.' Charles S. Maier, author of Among Empires - American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors 'This is a work of international history par excellence. Patrick Cohrs ambitiously merges an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of global order between 1860 and 1933. The New Atlantic Order offers a convincing structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. The book's reappraisal of 1914-1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.' Paul M. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

'In this opus magnum Patrick Cohrs presents an original and thought-provoking re-appraisal of the transformation of world politics between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. This is a compelling book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how challenging it was to create a stable international order after the 20th century's crucial cataclysm, how the key actors struggled to build a durable peace, and how the consequences of what they thought and did still shape the world of the 21st century.' Paul W. Schroeder, author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 'This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a long twentieth century. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.' Jurgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World 'An important book that recasts debates about European and global disorder after the First World War in a longer history of Atlantic world-order making since 1860. Advancing the case that the Paris Peace Conference produced an international 'system' that sought to address the question of German power and its place in the world, this new history also offers insights for contemporary debates on the question of China and the prospects for regional and global order in the present disorderly context of the 21st Century.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy. The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 'Patrick Cohrs's new grand narrative reappraises great-power relations from the late nineteenth century across World War I and the postwar treaties to argue that durably bringing peace to Europe would ultimately require an Atlantic system that both reconciled Germany and durably engaged the United States. The reader will find a major reassessment of the peace that might have been and a challenging diagnosis of what sadly prevented it.' Charles S. Maier, author of Among Empires - American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors 'This is a work of international history par excellence. Patrick Cohrs ambitiously merges an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of global order between 1860 and 1933. The New Atlantic Order offers a convincing structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. The book's reappraisal of 1914-1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.' Paul M. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of Great Powers

'In this opus magnum Patrick Cohrs presents an original and thought-provoking re-appraisal of the transformation of world politics between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. This is a compelling book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how challenging it was to create a stable international order after the 20th century's crucial cataclysm, how the key actors struggled to build a durable peace, and how the consequences of what they thought and did still shape the world of the 21st century.' Paul W. Schroeder, author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848 'This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a long twentieth century. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.' Jurgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World 'An important book that recasts debates about European and global disorder after the First World War in a longer history of Atlantic world-order making since 1860. Advancing the case that the Paris Peace Conference produced an international 'system' that sought to address the question of German power and its place in the world, this new history also offers insights for contemporary debates on the question of China and the prospects for regional and global order in the present disorderly context of the 21st Century.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920-1946 'Patrick Cohrs's new grand narrative reappraises great-power relations from the late nineteenth century across World War I and the postwar treaties to argue that durably bringing peace to Europe would ultimately require an Atlantic system that both reconciled Germany and durably engaged the United States. The reader will find a major reassessment of the peace that might have been and a challenging diagnosis of what sadly prevented it.' Charles S. Maier, author of Among Empires - American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors 'This is a work of international history par excellence. Patrick Cohrs ambitiously merges an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of global order between 1860 and 1933. The New Atlantic Order offers a convincing structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. The book's reappraisal of 1914-1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.' Paul M. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers 'This magisterial work focuses on the failure to prevent World War II. Cohrs advances [the] argument ... [that] any European order [after World War I] based solely on military containment was doomed unless it addressed the deeper sources of all European conflicts from 1850 to the present: diverging claims of national self-determination, opposing economic and financial interests, and intense ideological strife between the political right, left, and center. [The book's] sweeping synthesis and grounding in primary sources makes an impressive thousand-page read.' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs 'The goal of [Cohrs'] impressive erudition is ... to reconceptualize the entire process of peacemaking [after the First World War] ... He sees [it] within three broader contexts, located in temporally ever larger concentric circles. The smallest ... involves understanding peacemaking as an attempt to create a 'new Atlantic order', a transatlantic security and economic architecture linking the United States with western and central Europe ... [that anticipated] the more successful transatlantic creations after 1945. Surrounding this circle is the broader notion of a 'long twentieth century', running from 1860 to 2020 ... The widest circle is a consideration of ... international relations from the Congress of Vienna until the present, emphasizing the idea of ... a system of co-operation among sovereign states ... under the supervision of a power or powers that act as benevolent hegemons. This combination of detailed empirical research and large-scale reconceptualization creates a complex structure with lots of moving parts, impressive to observe in action ...' Jonathan Sperber, Times Literary Supplement

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Patrick O. Cohrs is Professor of International History at the University of Florence. He was associate professor of history at Yale University, a fellow at Harvard University, and Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is the author of the acclaimed The Unfinished Peace after World War I (Cambridge, 2006).

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