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Chapter 3: The Founders                                                                                 Chapter 4: The Vietnam Era                                                                     Chapter 5: Post Vietnam                                                                           Chapter 7: The Unipolar Moment  Chapter 8: The 21st Century Diffusion of Power                                     Chapter 9: American Foreign Policy and the Future Order","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732654895447,"sku":"9780197586297","price":23.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197586297.jpg?v=1719997818"},{"product_id":"high-wire-9780197682258","title":"High Wire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn High Wire, Angela Huyue Zhang provides a comprehensive and sophisticated overview of how China regulates its enormous tech sector. 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Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric ''world order'' of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system  a system that could not yet be global but had to be essentially transatlantic. Yet he also sheds new light on why, despite remarkable learning-processes, it proved impossible to forge a durable Atlantic peace after a First World War that became the long twentieth century''s cathartic catastrophe. In a broader perspective this ground-breaking study shows what a decisive impact this epochal struggle has had not only for modern conceptions of peace, collective security and an integrative, rule-based international order but also for formative ideas of self-determination, liberal-democratic government and the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'In this opus magnum Patrick Cohrs presents an original and thought-provoking re-appraisal of the transformation of world politics between the era of global imperialism and the aftermath of the First World War. This is a compelling book that should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how challenging it was to create a stable international order after the 20th century's crucial cataclysm, how the key actors struggled to build a durable peace, and how the consequences of what they thought and did still shape the world of the 21st century.' Paul W. Schroeder, author of The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848\u003cbr\u003e'This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a \"long\" twentieth century. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.' Jürgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World\u003cbr\u003e'An important book that recasts debates about European and global disorder after the First World War in a longer history of Atlantic world-order making since 1860. Advancing the case that the Paris Peace Conference produced an international 'system' that sought to address the question of German power and its place in the world, this new history also offers insights for contemporary debates on the question of China and the prospects for regional and global order in the present disorderly context of the 21st Century.' Patricia Clavin, author of Securing the World Economy: The Reinvention of the League of Nations, 1920–1946\u003cbr\u003e'Patrick Cohrs's new grand narrative reappraises great-power relations from the late nineteenth century across World War I and the postwar treaties to argue that durably bringing peace to Europe would ultimately require an “Atlantic” system that both reconciled Germany and durably engaged the United States. The reader will find a major reassessment of the peace that might have been and a challenging diagnosis of what sadly prevented it.' Charles S. Maier, author of Among Empires - American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors\u003cbr\u003e'This is a work of international history par excellence. Patrick Cohrs ambitiously merges an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of global order between 1860 and 1933. The New Atlantic Order offers a convincing structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. The book's reappraisal of 1914–1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.' Paul M. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers\u003cbr\u003e'This magisterial work focuses on the failure to prevent World War II. Cohrs advances [the] argument … [that] any European order [after World War I] based solely on military containment was doomed unless it addressed the deeper sources of all European conflicts from 1850 to the present: diverging claims of national self-determination, opposing economic and financial interests, and intense ideological strife between the political right, left, and center. [The book's] sweeping synthesis and grounding in primary sources makes an impressive thousand-page read.' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs\u003cbr\u003e'The goal of [Cohrs'] impressive erudition is … to reconceptualize the entire process of peacemaking [after the First World War] … He sees [it] within three broader contexts, located in temporally ever larger concentric circles. The smallest … involves understanding peacemaking as an attempt to create a 'new Atlantic order', a transatlantic security and economic architecture linking the United States with western and central Europe … [that anticipated] the more successful transatlantic creations after 1945. Surrounding this circle is the broader notion of a 'long twentieth century', running from 1860 to 2020 … The widest circle is a consideration of … international relations from the Congress of Vienna until the present, emphasizing the idea of … a system of co-operation among sovereign states … under the supervision of a power or powers that act as benevolent hegemons. This combination of detailed empirical research and large-scale reconceptualization creates a complex structure with lots of moving parts, impressive to observe in action …' Jonathan Sperber, Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of maps; Introduction; Part I. Inevitable Descent into the Abyss?: The Wider Pre-History of the Great War. The Involution of International Politics at the Dawn of the “Long” 20th Century: 1. Peace through equilibrium. The 19th century's Vienna system – and its disintegration; 2. Transformation and corrosion. The turn towards power politics and global imperialist competition in the formative decades of the “long” 20th century; 3. The “ascent” of an exceptionalist world power. The American special path and ephemeral aspirations for an Atlantic order of empires; 4. Counterforces – and first visions of a novel transatlantic peace. Internationalist aspirations to overcome imperialist power politics before 1914; 5. The unavoidable war? Long and short roads to the catastrophe of 1914; Part II. The Greatest War – and No Peace Without Victory: The Impact of the First World War, Competing Visions of Peace and the Struggle over the Shape of a New – Atlantic – World Order: 6. Tectonic changes. The consequences of the war and the transformation of the transatlantic constellation; 7. The political and ideological “war within the war”. The transatlantic competition over the shape of the postwar order; 8. No “peace without victory” – and the making of the frail Atlantic armistice of November 1918; 9. No prospects for a lasting peace? The urgent and the systemic challenges of peacemaking and the need for a new Atlantic order; Part III. Reorientations and Incipient Learning Processes: The Dominant – Atlantic – Approaches to Peace and Order after the Great War: 10. Towards a progressive Atlantic peace of the victors. The reorientation of American approaches to peace and international order; 11. The search for a new equilibrium – and an Atlantic concert. The reorientation of British approaches to peace and international order; 12. The search for security and an Atlantic alliance of the victors. The reorientation of French approaches to peace and international order; 13. A new beginning? German pursuits of a Wilsonian “peace of justice” and first steps towards an Atlanticist foreign policy; Part IV. No “Pax Atlantica”: The First Attempt to Found a Modern Atlantic Order – and its Frustration: 14. An impossible peace? The incomplete transatlantic peacemaking process of 1919; 15. Novel superstructure of a new Atlantic order? The struggle to found the League of Nations and the limitations of the covenant of 1919; 16. No just peace without security. The pivotal German settlement and the struggle to found a new Atlantic security system; 17. The eastern frontiers – and limits – of the new order. Self-determination, the critical Polish-German question and the wider challenges of “reorganising” Eastern Europe; 18. A formative threat? The Western powers and the Bolshevik challenge; 19. The political and moral stakes of reparations – and the limited advances towards a new Atlantic economic order; 20. The imposed peace. The missed opportunity of a negotiated settlement with Germany?; 21. The truncated Atlantic peace order of 1919 – a re-appraisal; Part V. Epilogue: The Political Consequences of the Peace: The Challenges after Versailles and the Making of the Unfinished Atlantic Peace of the 1920s: 22. Peace undermined. The divergent outlooks of the victors, the consequences of Wilson's defeat and the escalation of Europe's postwar crisis; 23. Towards a new order. Constructive learning processes and the construction of an Atlantic peace beyond Versailles; 24. The remarkable consolidation of the nascent Pax Atlantica of the 1920s – and its dissolution under the impact of the world economic crisis; Part VI. Final Perspectives – the Cadmeian Peace: 25. The eventual creation of the “long” 20th century's Atlantic order after 1945 and the crucial lessons of the era of the First World War; Bibliography.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738527674711,"sku":"9781107117976","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107117976.jpg?v=1720049246"},{"product_id":"when-democracy-died-9781316516423","title":"When Democracy Died","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an innovative, comprehensive account of the Lausanne Conference, Hans-Lukas Kieser recounts how the Conference concluded more than ten years of war and genocide in the late Ottoman Empire and explores the Treaty of Lausanne's resounding impact in the Middle East. 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Aftermath  AppendixI  Appendix II  Notes  Select Bibliography  Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866594095447,"sku":"9781350147058","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350147058.jpg?v=1722279372"},{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-taiwan-9781350363885","title":"The Trouble with Taiwan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a rebellious province', but which has managed to survive defiantly for decades. 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This book provides an invaluable introduction to this potential flashpoint for future conflict between the US and China, while centring Taiwanese people in their own story as they attempt to take control of their own futures in the face of ever greater pressure from Beijing. As China’s military and diplomatic power grows, Taiwan is on the frontline in standing up to Beijing and asserting its rights for autonomy and democracy. * James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China: How To Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet *\u003cbr\u003e\/i\u0026gt;‘By marshalling history, biography, internal politics, and international affairs, Brown and Wu Tzu-hui address the very ‘trouble’ they describe: they help situate a Taiwan whose “place” in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty. * Benjamin Zawacki, author of Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the US and a Rising China *\u003cbr\u003eFresh and authoritative, written with brio and precision. * Thomas Plate, author of Yo-Yo Diplomacy *\u003cbr\u003e‘An important and timely guide to one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for future conflict between the West and China.’ * James Griffiths, author of The Great Firewall of China *\u003cbr\u003e‘Brown and Wu Tzu-hui help situate a Taiwan whose “place” in the world is otherwise plagued by uncertainty.’ * Benjamin Zawacki, author of Thailand *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimeline of Events    Introduction – The Great Asian Game    1. 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