"Based on his The Versailles Settlement: Aftermath and Legacy 1919–2010 (2010), this meticulously revised and updated new edition examines the essential history of peacemaking in Paris followed by five chapters on seven major subject areas: the German problem, the League of Nations and United Nations, national self-determination, minority protection, disarmament, international law, and the ideological ramifications of ‘the American century’...For non-experts, the main value of the book will probably reside in its wide re-examination of the lasting consequences and aftershocks of the defining peace treaty of the twentieth century...For the expert, it is the fair, succinct, and balanced analysis of peacemaking in Paris 1919 for which the book is likely to be remembered."
— Diplomacy and Statecraft