Failed Imagination?; New World Orders of the Twentieth Century

by Andrew Williams

• ISBN13: 9780719047879
• ISBN10: 0719047870
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1999-07-02
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

The existence of a "New World Order" has been proclaimed three times this century, each time by an American President. Failed Imagination? examines the processes that gave rise to the first two of these "Orders," during the First and Second World Wars, and also asks where these ideas have now led us after the third such experience, in 1989. Andrew Williams aims to show how lofty ideas came to be translated into policy and how they became distorted in the process.

Author Biography

Andrew Williams is Director of the Graduate School of International Relations and Reader in International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
List of abbreviations	ix
Introduction: Why study new world orders?	1	(18)
The imagining of the Versailles NWO, 1914--19	19	(31)
The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, 1919	50	(29)
The United States and the planning of an American NWO, 1939--44	79	(30)
The `first follower' and Roosevelt's NWO: Britain, 1940--43	109	(33)
Joint Allied Proposals for an NWO: relationships and issues, 1941--45	142	(34)
International organisation, global security and the NWO	176	(36)
The economic element of the NWO project	212	(37)
Self-determination and the NWO	249	(35)
Conclusion: `Failed imagination'? Has the NWO idea worked?	284	(15)
Select bibliography	299	(16)
Index	315