Examines the challenges facing victors and vanquished alike after the ravages of WW1. This book focusses on the practicalities of treaty enforcement and compliance as western Germany came under Allied occupation and as the reparations bill was presented to the defeated and bankrupt Germans.

The fraught debates over disarmament as German big business struggled to adjust to the sudden disappearance of arms contracts and efforts were made on the international stage to achieve a measure of global disarmament - the price exacted by the redrawing of frontiers on Germany's eastern and western margins, as well as the (gentler) impact of the peace settlement on identity in French Flanders. This book was previously published as a special issue of "Diplomacy and Statecraft"

'Introduction', Conan Fischer, University of Strathclyde and Alan Sharp, University of Ulster
High Politics
'The Enforcement of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1923', Alan Sharp, University of Ulster
Occupation
'The British Zone of Occupation in the Rhineland', Elspeth O'Riordan, formerly University of St Andrews
' "Hut ab," "Promenade with Kamerade for Schokolade," and the Flying Dutchman: British Soldiers in the Rhineland, 1918-1929', Keith Jeffery, Queen's University Belfast
'French Policy in the Rhineland, 1919-1924', Stanislas Jeannesson, Universite de Paris IV (Sorbonne)
Reparations
'The Reparations Debate', Gerald Feldman, University of California, Berkeley
'The Human Price of Reparations', Conan Fischer, University of Strathclyde
'Reparations in the Long Run: Studying the Lessons of History', Patricia Clavin, Jesus College Oxford
Disarmament
'Disarmament and Big Business: The Case of Krupp, 1918-1925', Klaus Tenfelde, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
'Making Disarmament Work: The Implementation of the International Disarmament Provisions in the League of Nations Covenant, 1919-1925', Andrew Webster, University of Western Australia
Self-Determination/Identities
'From Lothringen to Lorraine: Expulsion and Voluntary Repatriation', Carolyn Grohmann, formerly University of Stirling
'The Versailles Settlement and Identity in French Flanders', Timothy Baycroft, University of Sheffield
' "The Sore which Would Never Heal": The Genesis of the Polish Corridor', Roger Moorhouse, formerly University of Strathclyde