Japan, the West and the Treaty of Versailles
At the outset of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference Japan enjoyed a seat at the top table, but the vexed issue of racial equality set it and its notional Western allies on different paths.
Woodrow Wilson
The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson, Part II: The Dream of Reason
Esmond Wright offers the second part of his study of the early 20th century American president and moralist.
The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson, Part I: The First World War
Esmond Wright offers a study of the steps by which the political moralist, who was President of the United States between 1912 and 1920, found himself reluctantly drawn from high-principled neutrality into a crusading intervention on behalf of democracy.
The Big Four: Peacemaking in Paris in 1919
Alan Sharp takes a fresh look at the statesmen responsible for the Treaty of Versailles
Dreamland of the Armistice
Alan Sharp looks at the factors shaping national policies in the weeks preceding the Paris Peace Conference, when the failure of the victorious allies to agree on aims and a process for negotiations with the Germans resulted in a ‘tragedy of disappointment’.
The Journey to War: Woodrow Wilson and American Pacifism
Paul Brewer looks at the politics behind US involvement in the First World War and how President Woodrow Wilson dealt with those Americans who campaigned against it.
Woodrow Wilson as Commander-in-Chief
Peacemaker or warmonger: history has awarded the former epithet (albeit ill-fated) to Woodrow Wilson, but here Christopher Ray looks at how the President performed as head of the services in conflict and at his relationship with America’s generals