Book contents
- Order and Rivalry
- Order and Rivalry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Organizational Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Organizing Globalization
- 2 The World Economy at War
- 3 Planning the Peace
- 4 From Bilateral to Multilateral Trade Treaties
- 5 Studying the World Economy, from Kiel and from Geneva
- 6 European Unity and Security
- 7 The International Chamber of Commerce and the Politics of Business
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Planning the Peace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Order and Rivalry
- Order and Rivalry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Organizational Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Organizing Globalization
- 2 The World Economy at War
- 3 Planning the Peace
- 4 From Bilateral to Multilateral Trade Treaties
- 5 Studying the World Economy, from Kiel and from Geneva
- 6 European Unity and Security
- 7 The International Chamber of Commerce and the Politics of Business
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Peace planning intensified starting in 1917, as the Russian Revolution and Wilson’s decision to join the war raised its ideological stakes. There were several competing projects for cooperative control over raw materials and for international free trade, but these plans were undermined by conflicts over resource sovereignty and imperial preference. The final League Covenant included a barebones commitment to ‘equitable treatment of foreign commerce’ In the 1920s, Llewellyn Smith, Harms, Coquet, and Riedl used this legal placeholder to revisit the work that was left undone at the peace conference, drawing on the new organizational structures that developed around foreign trade policy during and after the war.
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- Order and RivalryRewriting the Rules of International Trade after the First World War, pp. 84 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023