Failed imagination? : new world orders of the twentieth century / Andrew Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Andrew J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--History--20th century.

International relations.

History.

Mediation, International--History--20th century.

Mediation, International.

World politics--20th century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

The 'New World Order' is an agenda which has shaped the twentieth century. This agenda includes: self-determination for peoples and human rights for individuals; the spread of democracy and liberal capitalism as antidotes to war; and the establishment of international security organisations to control those who refuse to renounce violence in international relations.

The dawning of a new world order has been proclaimed three times this century, in each case by an American president. Drawing on both documentary and archival records, as well as the classical texts of major twentieth-century thinkers, Failed imagination? shows how lofty ideals have come to be translated into policy, and how they were distorted in the process.

Contents:

1 The imagining of the Versailles NWO, 1914-19 19

2 The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 50

3 The United States and the planning of an American NWO, 1939-44 79

4 The 'first follower' and Roosevelt's NWO: Britain, 1940-43 109

5 Joint Allied proposals for an NWO: relationships and issues, 1941-45 142

6 International organisation, global security and the NWO 176

7 The economic element of the NWO project 212

8 Self-determination and the NWO 249

Conclusion: 'Failed imagination'? Has the NWO idea worked? 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-314) and index.

ISBN:

0719047862

0719047870

OCLC:

40752980