The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848 by Paul W. Schroeder

“This magisterial work focuses on the failure to prevent World War II. Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.

Here is an international historian bringing the fruits of his work.” Paul M. The book’s dense narrative reappraisal of 1914–1918 diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, which draws on a massive array of new archival sources, is particularly strong, indeed admirable. The New Atlantic Order offers an unusually good structuralist approach to the coming of the Great War, showing that European leaders certainly did not sleepwalk into the abyss. Patrick Cohrs seeks ambitiously to merge an in-depth analysis of international politics with structuralist methods to capture the transformation of the global order between 18. “This is a work of international history par excellence. The system-building efforts of the post-World War I era were to resonate throughout the entire century.” Jürgen Osterhammel, author of The Transformation of the World. What drove these changes was a struggle, involving an unprecedented number of transnational actors and ideas, to forge rules, norms and institutions of a new Atlantic order among democratic states. “This ground-breaking work offers a challenging and original interpretation of how and why the international order was transformed at the dawn of a “long” twentieth century. The New Atlantic Order won the 2023 PROSE Award in World History. In a broader perspective this ground-breaking study shows what a decisive impact this epochal struggle has had not only for modern conceptions of peace, collective security and an integrative, rule-based international order but also for formative ideas of self-determination, liberal-democratic government and the West. Yet he also sheds new light on why, despite remarkable learning-processes, it proved impossible to forge a durable Atlantic peace after the First World War, which became the long twentieth century’s cathartic catastrophe.

Cohrs reinterprets the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 as the original attempt to supersede the Eurocentric “world order” of the age of imperialism and found a more legitimate peace system - a system that could not yet be global but had to be essentially transatlantic. Placing it in a broader historical and global context, Patrick O. This magisterial new history elucidates a momentous transformation process that changed the world: the struggle to create, for the first time, a modern Atlantic order in the long twentieth century (1860–2020).

The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848 by Paul W. Schroeder