Jackson, P. (2019) La conception Transatlantique de sécurité du gouvernement Clemenceau à la Conférence de Paix de Paris, 1919. Histoire, economie et societe, 38(4), pp. 65-87. (doi: 10.3917/hes.194.0065)
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Abstract
France’s policy at the Paris Peace Conference has long been criticised as a failed bid to destroy German power and to secure a dominant position in the post-1918 European political order. Premier Georges Clemenceau, meanwhile, is usually represented as a committed practitioner of traditional power politics. This interpretation, which has structured the historiography since the immediate aftermath of the war, has obscured an important ideological dimension to French policy at the peace conference. At the heart of the Clemenceau government’s programme was a trans-Atlantic conception of future international order that rested on a shared commitment to democracy and self-determination between France, Great Britain and the United States. The aim was to enmesh Germany in a new security order that would be underpinned by the superior economic and military resources of the victorious Allied powers. This policy anticipated geo-political developments during and after the Second World War.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Jackson, Professor Peter |
Authors: | Jackson, P. |
Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I D History General and Old World > DC France J Political Science > JZ International relations |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History |
Journal Name: | Histoire, economie et societe |
Publisher: | Armand Colin |
ISSN: | 0752-5702 |
ISSN (Online): | 1777-5906 |
Published Online: | 09 January 2020 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019 Armand Colin |
First Published: | First published in Histoire, economie et societe 38(4): 65-87 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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