Ending War - Global Politics And The Rise Of Diplomacy

Question 1

Debate

Answer 1

Stalemate-exhaustion hypotheses
Decisive battle hypotheses
Change of sovereign hypotheses

Question 2

Hypotheses

Answer 2

Reasons given are ultimately not convincing
War and peace as a continuous process of negotiation
Shift from monarch to bureaucrat

Question 3

Modern conceptions of peacemaking

Answer 3

Ww1 - comprehensive but separate treaties, League of Nations, exhaustion
Ww2 - comprehensive peace, United Nations, decisive battles

Question 4

Ending the 30 years war

Answer 4

Mutual exhaustion?
Death of enemy commander? (Gustavus Adolphus)
Peace negotiations in Westphalia
Munster - peace party

Question 5

Middle Ages - peace making through monarchs

Answer 5

Coerced or voluntary
Coerced (e.g. Jean II)
Voluntary (e.g. Frederick II-Kalil)

Question 6

Ending seven years war?

Answer 6

Death of Russian empress

Peace of HUbertusburh in Paris

Question 7

End of the Napoleonic wars?

Answer 7

Battle of Waterloo, congress of Vienna 1815

Question 8

Conclusion

Answer 8

Reasons given are ultimately not good enough - good example of how history is too complicated for simple reasoning
War and peace as a continuous process of negotiation - culture of negotiation evolving
Shift from monarch to bureaucrat - but more importantly from personal to impersonal