Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938

Statesmen and scholars were inspired by a period after World War I (when the victors devised Minority Treaties for the new and expanded states of Eastern Europe) at the time that the Cold War ended between 1989-1991. This book is the first study of that period--between 1878 and 1938--when the Great Powers established a system of external supervision to reduce the threats in Europe's most volatile regions of Irredentism, persecution, and uncontrolled waves of westward migration. It is a study of the strengths and weaknesses of an early state of international human rights diplomacy as practiced by rival and often-uninformed Western political leaders, ardent but divided Jewish advocates, and aggressive state minority champions, in the tumultuous age of nationalism and imperialism, Bolshevism and fascism between Bismarck and Hitler.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Fink, Carole
Published: 02/11/2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521029940
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.91d