HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Eastern Settlement, David Lloyd George, Polish Corridor
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Lecture 6: post war settlements - idealism v realism. Treaty of versailles was not a spark for facism - it would have happened despite the treaty. International relations, until wilson, had been dominated by europeans: during negotiations, europe is sidelined and replaced as key contributor to a post-war settlement. Saw that europeans (and their ideal of balance of power) formed alliance systems to prevent hegemony (and shifting alliances) - undermined their own system of stability. Proposed a different approach to ir: balance of power was to be forgotten and replaced with a free international system (eliminate nationalism, colonization, and power) with collective security. He believed there were only two solutions to war: democracy or revolution. Serbia), - with countries working together, this would not happen. France and britain agreed with his proposal - no one had the power to oppose him despite critics (state he doesn"t know european relations)