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- Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
- Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Ordering Concepts
- Part II Institutions
- Part III Actors and Networks
- 12 The Great Conversation
- 13 An Alternative International Relations
- 14 The Paris Peace Conference and the Origins of Global Feminism
- 15 Colonial Nationalists and the Making of a New International Order
- Part IV Counterpoint
- Index
12 - The Great Conversation
A Discussion on Peace after the First World War
from Part III - Actors and Networks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
- Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
- Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Ordering Concepts
- Part II Institutions
- Part III Actors and Networks
- 12 The Great Conversation
- 13 An Alternative International Relations
- 14 The Paris Peace Conference and the Origins of Global Feminism
- 15 Colonial Nationalists and the Making of a New International Order
- Part IV Counterpoint
- Index
Summary
The Great Conversation was a broad-based discussion on international issues and world peace that took place beyond the traditional circles of power and of the intellectual elite at the end of the Great War. In a time of global destabilisation and political innovations, it gave ordinary men and women, mainly in Western countries, the opportunity, the desire and the legitimacy to take a stand on international issues by virtue of a new interpretation of their political rights and their own agency. It was an unprecedented, unorganised, yet transnational movement of thought, which questioned the meaning of citizenship in a context of democratisation of political life.
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- Peacemaking and International Order after the First World War , pp. 289 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023