How can sustainable peace be achieved? This question surely stands as one of humankind’s most pressing imperatives, as a glance at today’s headlines will reveal. The answer, likely a bouquet of interconnected insights, is in high demand. Historically, the Versailles Peace Treaty, which left Germany humiliated and vindictive, taught statesmen and diplomats that peace cannot…
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Review Essay 6 on The Shadow of the Past: Reputation and Military Alliances before the First World War
Gregory Miller’s book begins with a theoretical discussion of the importance of ‘reputation’ in international politics, before analysing its role in four case studies taken from European diplomacy before 1914. To a quite unusual extent, his study consists of an extended critique of a single book – and one published in the same series with…