While the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 failed, in that it couldn't prevent WWII, Leonard V. Smith's ground-breaking work shows how it was instrumental in creating a new kind of international cooperation where national sovereignty was used to remake a new world order.

Leonard V. Smith is Frederick B. Arz Professor of History at Oberlin College, Ohio. He has previously written extensively about France and the Great War. His first book, Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I (1994) won the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association. France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (co-authored with Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker, 2003) won the Norman B. Tomlinson Prize from the Western Front Association. Smith is also the author of The Embattled Self: French Soldiers Testimony of the Great War (2007).

• Introduction: The Riddles of Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference


• 1: The Agents and Structures of Peacemaking


• 2: The Sovereignty of Justice


• 3: The "Unmixing" of Lands


• 4: The "Unmixing" of Peoples


• 5: Mastering Revolution


• 6: Sovereignty and the League of Nations, 1920-1923


• Conclusion: History, IR, and the Paris Peace Conference