Kay Lundgreen-Nielsen. The Polish Problem at the Paris Peace Conference: A Study of the Policies of the Great Powers and the Poles, 1918–1919. Translated by Alison Borch-Johansen. (Odense University Studies in History and Social Sciences, number 59.) Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press. 1979. Pp. 603. 120 KR

1980 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
University Studies ◽  
Paris Peace Conference

Romania

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Ioanid
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Electoral Fraud ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
Native Strains

The modern Romanian state was born in the nineteenth century, as a result of the struggle for the independence and unity of its intellectual and political elites in a fragile and shifting equilibrium between the Great Powers. Its political functioning remained troubled. Between the two world wars, governmental majorities never cooperated with the opposition, even though their programmes were not very different. Electoral fraud and electoral premiums characterized the inter-war Romanian electoral process. Romanian fascism proclaimed itself to be the spiritual heir of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century native strains of conservatism and xenophobia. The most powerful component of this xenophobia was anti-Semitism, which from the nineteenth century expressed itself in economic, social, religious, and political models. Basically, most of the founding fathers of the Romanian modern state who took on any major role in politics, economics, social sciences, philosophy, or literature, were anti-Semites.

Arms and Diplomacy in the Postwar Order, 1919–25

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-41
Author(s):  
Mary S. Barton
Keyword(s):  
League Of Nations ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Paris Peace Conference ◽  
Security Concerns

While the peacemakers at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 did not anticipate the extensive revanchist and state-sponsored terrorism that would bedevil the Great Powers during the interwar years, members of the British delegation persuaded their French and American counterparts that the unprecedented scale of production of weapons in wartime would lead to an upsurge in global arms trafficking in peacetime. They signed the Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 10, 1919. National priorities and diverging security concerns in the years following the signing of treaty, however, took precedence over ratification and enforcement of the agreement. By the end of 1924, the League of Nations had emerged as the principal organization concerned with stopping international arms trafficking and keeping surplus munition stocks from being “distributed to persons and states who are not fitted to possess them.”

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