TY - BOOK AU - Graebner,Norman A. AU - Bennett,Edward M. TI - The Versailles Treaty and its Legacy: The Failure of the Wilsonian Vision [ electronic resource ] SN - 9780511835162 ( e-book ) U1 - 940.3141 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Diplomatic and International History KW - Politics and International Relations KW - International Relations and International Organisations KW - History KW - Electronic books N2 - This study, a realist interpretation of the long diplomatic record that produced the coming of World War II in 1939, is a critique of the Paris Peace Conference and reflects the judgment shared by many who left the Conference in 1919 in disgust amid predictions of future war. The critique is a rejection of the idea of collective security, which Woodrow Wilson and many others believed was a panacea, but which was also condemned as early as 1915. This book delivers a powerful lesson in treaty-making and rejects the supposition that treaties, once made, are unchangeable, whatever their faults UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511835162 ER -