ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|17 pages

Whigs and Tories in 1815

Imposing a government

chapter 3|15 pages

Bismarck and Favre in 1870

Nationality and territory

chapter 4|15 pages

Kitchener, Milner, Smuts and De Wet in 1902

Surrender and reconciliation

chapter 5|21 pages

Witte and Komura in 1905

Indemnities and exactions

chapter 6|18 pages

Lloyd George and Foch in 1919

The destruction of militarism

chapter 7|14 pages

The British debates in 1919 and 1933: victory in battle, defeat in the mind

Victory in battle, defeat in the

chapter 8|14 pages

Hitler and Churchill in 1942

Objectives in war

chapter 9|21 pages

Bishops, lawyers and war crimes trials

chapter 10|19 pages

Turner Joy and Nam Il in 1952

Prisoners of war or hostages?

chapter 11|20 pages

Cabot Lodge and Tran Buu Kiem in Paris in 1969

Compromise and surrender

chapter 12|9 pages

Democracy and peacemaking