The politics of self-determination : remaking territories and national identities in Europe, 1917-1923 / Volker Prott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prott, Volker, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Europe.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

vi, 266 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press ; 2016.

Summary:

The Politics of Self-Determination examines the territorial restructuring of Europe between 1917 and 1923, when a radically new and highly fragile peace order was established. It opens with an exploration of the peace planning efforts of Great Britain, France, and the United States in the final phase of the First World War. It then provides an in-depth view on the practice of Allied border drawing at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, focussing on a new factor in foreign policymaking-academic experts employed by the three Allied states to aid in peace planning and border drawing. This examination of the international level is juxtaposed with two case studies of disputed regions where the newly drawn borders caused ethnic violence, albeit with different results: the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France in 1918-19, and the Greek-Turkish War between 1919 and 1922. A final chapter investigates the approach of the League of Nations to territorial revisionism and minority rights, thereby assessing the chances and dangers of the Paris Peace Order over the course of the 1920s and 1930s. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Planning the Post-War Order

1 Tying up the Loose Ends of National Self-Determination: British, French, and American Peace Planning, 1917-1919 21

2 'Reintegration pure et simple?' Reinventing the Franco-German Border of Alsace-Lorraine, 1914-1918 54

3 The Cradle of Civilization on the Fringes of Europe: The Quest for Greek Expansion into Asia Minor 83

II Implementing the Paris System

4 The Interwar Period in a Microcosm: Negotiating Borders at the Paris Peace Conference 113

5 Ethno-Political Drifts: The Return of French Rule to Alsace-Lorraine, 1918-1919 148

6 A Precarious Border Zone: Ethnic Violence and the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922 180

7 Revisiting the Peace Architecture: Border Changes and Minority Rights in the League of Nations 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-260 and index.

ISBN:

9780198777847

0198777841

OCLC:

943701530