Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Laurence Badel is Professor of Contemporary History and International Relations at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. A specialist of European diplomatic practices, her research focus is two-pronged: the history of women in diplomacy and international relations and the history of diplomatic capitals. Her most recent publications are Écrire l'histoire des relations internationales. Genèses, concepts, perspectives XVIIIe-XXIesiècle (Armand Colin, 2024) and Diplomaties européennes: XIXe-XXIe siècle (Presses de Sciences Po, 2021), which won the Institut de France’s 2022 Prix Edouard Bonnefous.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Paris 1919: The Challenge of a New World OrderLaurence Badel, Eckart Conze and Axel DröberPart I: Transformations of Legal OrderChapter 1. The Order of Versailles: A Peace for Law and Justice?Vincent LaniolChapter 2. Purging the Dross? German International Law Scholars on the Treaty of Versailles and the Post-War OrderMiloš VecChapter 3. The Subversive Internationalist: Japanese Responses to the Paris Peace Conference and Their Impact on Its Interwar and Wartime Political PerformanceUrs Matthias ZachmannPart II: Economy and Technology: New Actors and InstitutionsChapter 4. When the World Economy Came into Being: The Supreme Economic Council and the Establishment of World Economic StatisticsMartin BemmannChapter 5. The Treaty of Versailles and Transatlantic Telecommunications: Technical Diplomacy, Sortie de Guerre and a New Techno-Strategic ParadigmPascal GrisetChapter 6. The International Chamber of Commerce: Multilateralism and the Invention of International Commercial ArbitrationJérôme SgardPart III: Regional Order, International OrderChapter 7. Regional Disorder, Partial Sovereignty and Multilevel Negotiations: The Caucasus, 1917-20Etienne Forestier-PeyratChapter 8. Longing for Greatness: Brazil at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919Thomas FischerChapter 9. Washington of the World, Vatican of the East: Imagining Istanbul in a New Global OrderCarolin Liebisch-GümüşPart IV: Challenges of the Paris OrderChapter 10. Cultural Modernity, Political Maturity and Modern Womanhood: Soumay Tcheng’s Feminist Diplomacy at the Paris Peace ConferenceMona SiegelChapter 11. A Conference for Africa? Racialization and the New World Order in 1919Emmanuelle SibeudChapter 12. Woodrow Wilson and His Domestic Critics: The United States and the World Order after the Great WarManfred BergChapter 13. The Paris Moment: Experiences of War and Challenges of Peace, 1919-20Eckart ConzeConclusion: Paris 1919: Perspectives and Boundaries of InternationalizationLaurence Badel, Eckart Conze and Axel DröberIndex