Enforced Disarmament, 9780198206361
Hardcover
At every major peace conference for the past 200 years victors have disarmed their defeated enemies to try to prevent them from overturning the peace settlement. Philip Towle examines the most important peace settlements from the time of Napoleon to Saddam Hussein, in the first major history of thi…

Enforced Disarmament

from the napoleonic campaigns to the gulf war

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    276 pages

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    1 May 1997

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Summary

Enforced disarmament has often been ignored by historians, diplomats, and strategic analaysts. Yet the democracies have imposed some measure of disarmament on their enemies after every major victory since 1815. In many cases, forced disarmament was one of the most important, if not the most important, of their war aims. The demilitarization of Germany and Japan, for example, was one of the most significant post-war measures agreed by the Soviet Union,Britain, and the USA in 1945, whilst the d…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198206361
ISBN-10:0198206364
Author:Philip Towle
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:276
Release Date:1 May 1997
Weight:442g
Dimensions:224mm x 144mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

‘Towle’s study may not point to any clear conclusions, but it certainly undermines some enduring illusions.’ Peter T. Marsh, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol.19, No.1, March 2000.

Towle's study ... certainly undermines some enduring illusions.'Peter T. Marsh, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vol.12, No.1, March 2001From the outset, the tale Towle has to tell is one of irony and paradox.‘Peter T. Marsh, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol.19, No.1, March 2000.`Towle’s study may not point to any clear conclusions, but it certainly undermines some enduring illusions.‘Peter T. Marsh, Immigrants and Minorities, Vol.19, No.1, March 2000.

About The Author

Philip Towle

ROBERT J. JACKSON is Fletcher Jones Professor of Government and Director of International Relations at the University of Redlands. PHILIP TOWLE is Reader in International Relations at the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University,“”

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