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The politics of industrial collaboration during World War II : Ford France, Vichy and Nazi Germany
\"Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collaboration in occupied France, Horn and Imlay trace the wartime activities of Ford Motor Company's French affiliate. The company began making trucks and engine parts for the French military; but from 1940 until Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority; Nazi Germany's economic policies and the nature of the German occupation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France, and the role of American companies in Occupied Europe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hans Morgenthau, Peaceful Change, and the Origins of American Realism
This article examines Morgenthau's switch from international law to international politics, arguing that it was fundamental to his emergence as a founder of postwar realism in the United States. More precisely, it sets this switch in the context of a far-reaching but largely overlooked debate among American jurists during the 1930s on the question of peaceful change: of how to revise an international order or major aspects of it by means other than war. This debate provided Morgenthau with a solution to the impasse reached by his project in international law before World War II, allowing him to transform what appeared to be a problem from the vantage point of international law into a structural element of an approach to international politics—of his realism.
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International Socialism and Decolonization during the 1950s: Competing Rights and the Postcolonial Order
Imlay looks at discussions between European and Asian socialists during the 1950s regarding the vexed issue of decolonization. He tells that these discussions were framed in terms of competing rights: national rights, minority rights, and human rights, thus providing an interesting perspective on the stakes involved in decolonization. Whereas Asian socialists insisted on the primacy of national rights, European socialists raised the issue of minority rights, arguing that most colonies were multiethnic societies in which minority groups needed to be protected. By the end of the 1950s, the leading European socialist parties had come around to endorsing national rights for colonial peoples, chiefly because the defense of minority rights became identified with the defense of colonialism. Unease with the abandonment of minority rights, however, fueled a growing interest in human rights, which European socialists seized upon in the hope of providing some protection to minorities in postcolonial states. The discussions between socialists draw attention not only to the interconnected histories of minority rights, human rights, and decolonization after 1945, but also to some of the consequences of the triumph of national rights.
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Defining Asian Socialism: The Asian Socialist Conference, Asian Socialists, and the Limits of a Global Socialist Movement in 1953
The article examines the debates at the Asian Socialist Conference's (ASC) inaugural gathering in Rangoon in January 1953, using a variety of sources, including the minutes of the conference meetings found in the Swedish Social Democratic Party archives. The focus is on the efforts of Asian socialists to define Asian socialism in terms of three broad subjects: international politics; domestic politics; and economic politics. Throughout, particular attention is accorded to the role played by understandings of European socialism. The argument is threefold: that socialism was central to the ASC project, prompting efforts to define Asian socialism; that these efforts invariably raised the fraught question of Asian socialism's relationship with European socialism; and that the stakes involved in Rangoon were not limited to Asian socialism, but also involved socialism's potential as a global movement.
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“The policy of social democracy is self-consciously internationalist”: The German Social Democratic Party’s Internationalism after 1945
Imlay argues that during the first fifteen years or so after the war German socialists understood internationalism above all in terms of socialist internationalism, and socialist internationalism in terms of membership in an international socialist community. Three related aspects of the Social Democratic Party's (SPD's) socialist internationalism are noteworthy. The first concerns identity, party members defined themselves as both German and international socialists. Although relations between the two aspects of this dual identity were not always easy, the SPD's internationalism entailed the belief that German and non-German socialists were bound together by mutual rights and responsibilities.
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Beyond the Great War
Following the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War.
Beyond the Great War brings together a group of both well-established and younger historians who share a rejection of the dominant view of the peace process that ended the First World War. The book expands beyond the traditional focus on diplomatic and high political history to question the assumption that the Paris Peace Treaties were the progenitors of a new world order. Extending the ongoing debate about the success of the Treaty of Versailles and surrounding events, this collection approaches the heritage of the Great War through a variety of lenses: gender, race, the high politics of diplomacy, the peace movement, provision for veterans, international science, socialism, and the way the war ended. Collectively, contributors argue that the treaties were at best a mitigated success, and that the brave new world of 1919 cannot be separated from the Great War that preceded it.
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Democracy and War: Political Regime, Industrial Relations, and Economic Preparations for War in France and Britain up to 1940
The issue of whether a common democratic method of preparing for war existed during the 1930s is revisited by exploring the economic preparations for war of two democracies, France and Britain, from the late 1930s, when another war appeared increasingly likely, to the spring of 1940, on the eve of Germany's dramatic miliatry victories in the West. It is argued that the economic preparations for war of the two countries differed in fundamental ways and, in particular, in the crucial task of resource allocation.
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