The Versailles Treaty and its Legacy
The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision
2011
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This study, a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939, is a critique of the Paris Peace Conference and reflects the judgment shared by many who left the Conference in 1919 in disgust amid predictions of future war. The critique is a rejection of the idea of collective security, which Woodrow Wilson and many others believed was a panacea, but which was also condemned as early as 1915. This book delivers a powerful lesson in treaty-making and rejects the supposition that treaties, once made, are unchangeable, whatever their faults.
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Norman A. Graebner
Author · 2 books
A specialist in American diplomatic history, Norman Graebner was professor emeritus of history at the University of Virginia, where he taught from 1967 until his retirement in 1986.
