The Making of Peace represents a unique contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesman have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. It contains a number of case studies by many leading historians in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Author(s): Williamson Murray, Jim Lacey
Edition: 1
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 404
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface: concluding peace......Page 9
1 Introduction: searching for peace......Page 17
The historical background: ancient and medieval......Page 22
Problems with the making of peace......Page 30
The nature of war......Page 33
War's human legacy......Page 36
The context of peace making......Page 37
The problem of memory and ahistoricism......Page 39
Conclusion......Page 43
2 The Peace of Nicias......Page 47
By land and by sea......Page 49
The spartan disposition......Page 51
The spartan alliance......Page 56
The corinthian conundrum......Page 60
Pericles' calculated risk......Page 67
Grand strategy......Page 76
The peace of nicias......Page 83
3 "A swift and sure peace": the Congress of Westphalia 1643-1648......Page 87
Pacifying the empire......Page 98
Pomerania......Page 103
Alsace, navarre, and lorraine......Page 105
Outcome......Page 109
The past as future......Page 117
Thinking of peace......Page 122
The making of the treaty of paris......Page 124
The unintended effects of peace making......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 143
5 In search of military repose: the Congress of Vienna and the making of peace......Page 147
War and its environment......Page 148
Background to the congress......Page 151
The congress......Page 157
The fallout......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 170
6 War and peace in the post-Civil War South......Page 176
Conclusion......Page 191
7 Vae victoribus: Bismarck’s quest for peace in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1871......Page 193
Conclusion......Page 220
8 Versailles: the peace without a chance......Page 225
The context of the war......Page 226
The Outbreak of War......Page 227
The Conduct of War and Military Necessity......Page 231
The War’s End: March 1918–November 1918......Page 235
The making of the european peace: versailles 1919......Page 238
Russian and eastern european problems......Page 247
The german problem......Page 250
The failure of versailles and the coming of the second world war......Page 253
9 "Building buffers and filling vacuums": Great Britain and the Middle East, 1914–1922......Page 256
Traditional themes and changing circumstances......Page 257
Recruiting the arabs......Page 259
Syria and the sykes-picot agreement......Page 263
Mesopotamia: the "forward" impetus......Page 265
Palestine: racial, financial, and strategic reasoning......Page 267
A new imperialism?......Page 269
Reassembling the pieces and making the peace......Page 271
The causes of failure......Page 277
10 Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peace making, 1943–1949......Page 281
Cold war studies......Page 283
The argument......Page 287
The cold war cometh......Page 292
The historical context......Page 298
Difficulties: thucydides was right......Page 302
Conclusion: the cold war peace......Page 305
11 The economic making of peace......Page 309
Lend lease......Page 312
Bretton woods......Page 314
What of germany?......Page 318
Japan's economic rebirth......Page 322
Who lost china?......Page 325
The british loan......Page 327
Marshall plan: the genesis......Page 330
Europe in need......Page 333
Europe reacts......Page 334
The marshall plan results......Page 336
12 Ending the Cold War......Page 339
Evaluating the cold war's end......Page 340
Why the cold war ended......Page 342
Unfinished business......Page 350
America's war aims......Page 352
The fall of the soviet union......Page 357
New world disorder......Page 361
The threat america missed......Page 365
Conclusion......Page 370
13 Conclusion: history and the making of peace......Page 372
Index......Page 385
