The Making of Peace: Rulers, States, and the Aftermath of War

by Edited by Williamson Murray , Jim Lacey

• ISBN13: 9780521731935
• ISBN10: 0521731933
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Making of Peace represents a unique contribution to the study of war: namely, the difficulties that statesmen have confronted in attempting to put back together the pieces after a major conflict. These essays examine how Western belligerents have addressed - or failed to address - the making of peace across a span of two and a half millennia and in contests reflecting a broad range of prompting disputes. Some efforts produced at best a momentary suspension of hostilities. Others transformed the very context of international relations. Defined more modestly, however, as the control and moderation of violence, some peacemaking efforts were notably more successful than others. This study also serves as a first draft of a guide for those who will confront the equally difficult task of maintaining the peace, once achieved. It contains path-breaking essays by leading historians of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Author Biography

Williamson Murray is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC, and Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University. Jim Lacey is an analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Preface: concluding peace	p. vii
Introduction: searching for peace	p. 1
The Peace of Nicias	p. 31
"A swift and sure peace": the Congress of Westphalia 1643-1648	p. 71
The Peace of Paris, 1763	p. 101
In search of military repose: the Congress of Vienna and the making of peace	p. 131
War and peace in the post-Civil War South	p. 160
Vae victoribus: Bismarck's quest for peace in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871	p. 177
Versailles: the peace without a chance	p. 209
"Building buffers and filling vacuums": Great Britain and the Middle East, 1914-1922	p. 240
Mission improbable, fear, culture, and interest: peace making, 1943-1949	p. 265
The economic making of peace	p. 293
Ending the Cold War	p. 323
Conclusion: history and the making of peace	p. 356
Index	p. 369
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