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Beyond Appeasement

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Description for Beyond Appeasement Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 399.

The interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineffective. More seriously, the standard histories have also held that they severely weakened national efforts to resist Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Cecelia Lynch provides a long-overdue reevaluation of these movements. Throughout the work she challenges these interpretations, particularly regarding the postwar understanding of Realism, which forms the basis of core assumptions in international relations theory.

The Realist account labels support for interwar peace movements as idealist. It holds that this support—largely pacifist in Britain, largely isolationist in the United States—led to overreliance on the League of Nations, appeasement, ... Read more

Lynch focuses on the construction of the United Nations as evidence that the conventional history is incomplete as well as misleading. She brings to light the role of social movements in the formation of the normative underpinnings of the U.N., thus requiring scholars to rethink their understanding of the repercussions of the interwar experience as well as the significance of social movements for international life.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801473937
SKU
V9780801473937
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About Cecelia Lynch
Cecelia Lynch is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Beyond Appeasement
Beyond Appeasement is an ambitious and original research product. In this book, Lynch reexamines the British and U.S. peace movements between the two world wars. Though primarily addressed to international relations scholars, this book should also interest social movement specialists.
Jeffrey W. Knopf, Naval Postgraduate School
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