International Relations Between The Two World Wars 1919 1939

The literature on German foreign policy between the two World Wars is even more extensive than it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1977. This text makes use of the increase in available literature, analyzing the interwar period as a whole from the German perspective.

"First edition 1939. Second edition 1946."

The problems of peacemaking, by A.J. Mayer.--Russo-German military collaboration during the Weimar Republic, by H.W. Gatzke.--Stresemann and Locarno, by A. Thimme.--The German-Austrian customs union project of 1931: a study of German methods and motives, by F.G. Stambrook, --Great Britain, German rearmament, and the Naval Agreement of 1935, by C. Bloch.--The Hoare-Laval plan: a study in international politics, by H.B. Braddick.--March 7, 1936, again: the view from Paris, by J.C. Cairns.--Czechoslovakia and the powers, September 1938, by D. Vital.--Hitler and the origins of the Second World War, by A. Bullock.--Bibliographical essay (p. 247-262).

The new edition of this major work offers a comprehensive analysis of international communication systems and the global flow of information. Hamid Mowlana places the analysis of global mass media and other forms of communication within a critical overview of international and intercultural relations. Extensively rewritten and revised, Global Information and World Communication deals with the phenomenon of global information flow in all contexts - political, economic, cultural, technological, legal and professional. Mowlana illustrates how different communication strategies and systems have contributed to the creation of powerful interests and have altered the global scene. He takes into account recent events and sho

In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the most disputed events of these tumultuous years. Steiner underlines the far-reaching consequences of the Great Depression, which shifted the initiative in international affairs from those who upheld the status quo to those who were intent on destroying it. In Europe, the l930s were Hitler's years. He moved the major chess pieces on the board, forcing the others to respond. From the start, Steiner argues, he intended war, and he repeatedly gambled on Germany's future to acquire the necessary resources to fulfil his continental ambitions. Only war could have stopped him-an unwelcome message for most of Europe. Misperception, miscomprehension, and misjudgment on the part of the other Great Powers leaders opened the way for Hitler's repeated diplomatic successes. It is ideology that distinguished the Hitler era from previous struggles for the mastery of Europe. Ideological presumptions created false images and raised barriers to understanding that even good intelligence could not penetrate. Only when the leaders of Britain and France realized the scale of Hitler's ambition, and the challenge Germany posed to their Great Power status, did they finally declare war.