Chapter 1. The Order of Versailles: A Peace for Law and Justice?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction. Paris 1919: The Challenge of a New World Order 1
6. Part I. Transformations of Legal Order
7. Chapter 1. The Order of Versailles: A Peace for Law and Justice? 29
8. Chapter 2. Purging the Dross? German International Law Scholars on the Treaty of Versailles and the Post-war Order 46
9. Chapter 3. The Subversive Internationalist: Japanese Responses to the Paris Peace Conference and Their Impact on Its Interwar and Wartime Political Performance 75
10. Part II. Economy and Technology: New Actors and Institutions
11. Chapter 4. When the World Economy Came into Being: The Supreme Economic Council and the Establishment of World Economic Statistics 97
12. Chapter 5. The Treaty of Versailles and Transatlantic Telecommunications: Technical Diplomacy, Sortie de Guerre and a New Techno- Strategic Paradigm 118
13. Chapter 6. The International Chamber of Commerce: Multilateralism and the Invention of International Commercial Arbitration 150
14. Part III. Regional Order, International Order
15. Chapter 7. Regional Disorder, Partial Sovereignty and Multilevel Negotiations: The Caucasus, 1917–20 169
16. Chapter 8. Longing for Greatness: Brazil at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 192
17. Chapter 9. Washington of the World, Vatican of the East: Imagining Istanbul in a New Global Order 220
18. Part IV. Challenges of the Paris Order
19. Chapter 10. Cultural Modernity, Political Maturity and Modern Womanhood: Soumay Tcheng’s Feminist Diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference 247
20. Chapter 11. A Conference for Africa? Racialization and the New World Order in 1919 270
21. Chapter 12. Woodrow Wilson and His Domestic Critics: The United States and the World Order after the Great War 287
22. Chapter 13. The Paris Moment: Experiences of War and Challenges of Peace, 1919–20 303
23. Conclusion. Paris 1919: Perspectives and Boundaries of Internationalization 318
24. Index 325