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• W2017739110 abstract "Diplomatic History, World History, and the Great Scramble Anthony D'Agostino What A said to B, what C heard from D, that's diplomatic history. The taunting couplet was meant to take diplomatic historians down a peg from the exalted status they enjoyed for most of the 20th century. Between the end of the Great War of 1914-1918 and the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991, they seemed to hold the key to understanding the origins of the defining events of the time, the two world wars. Their works of towering literary and scientific merit, written from documents issued by the various foreign offices, spoke eloquently to serious students of history in academia and government. So great was the prestige of the field that other historians could not resist a certain resentment that so much attention could be paid to what one clerk said to another clerk. Fernand Braudel, writing just after World War II, complained that the momentous discovery of the document had led historians to think that the whole truth could be found in the history of events step by step as it emerged from ambassadorial letters or parliamentary debates. Diplomatic history's delusive smoke, he complained, fills the minds of its contemporaries.1 Well, we do not have to worry about this anymore. Everything, or nearly everything, from the time of the European great powers has either disappeared or is passing from view, including European diplomatic history. There are many reasons for this: the rise of other competing historical perspectives and preoccupations; the end of the Westphalia period of the European states and their absorption into the European Union and its passions; the demographic decline of Europe itself; a waning interest in the legacy of Western civilization; and a general wilting before the dread word Eurocentrism. And yet, might this not be too extreme a correction, at least for diplomatic history? True, most diplomatic historians today do not even like to use the term, preferring to call themselves international historians. They want to stress that they do not limit their attention to the stuff of formal diplomacy, but are instead open to all sorts of other material—economics, partisan domestic politics, class conflict, cultural life, gender relations. There is nothing wrong with this, of course, even if it does seem to undercut the study of what one clerk said to another clerk. Therein, it should be admitted, is contained the best evidence of how foreign policy was made and thus how the fate of nations in war and peace was determined. Click for larger view View full resolution A street scene of heavily bombed Berlin. A still from Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (1947). There is no diminution among undergraduates in their interest in these things. Quite the reverse: the attraction of what one might call the humane study of power has not lost any of its force. In fact it seems to increase as students sense their own time more and more as one of international crisis. Not all of the old classics are in print, or, in some cases, even kept on the shelves of the major college libraries. But new works of formidable quality continue to appear, and debate among historians still produces plenty of fireworks.2 The reports of the death of the field are greatly exaggerated. European diplomatic history, however, is up against the fact that there have been no European great powers for seventy years. Europe in the Cold War, in terms of the study of power, is not nearly as interesting as in the period of the world wars. The story of Europe is really the story of the end of Europe.3 And the story of the era of the world wars is the story of European great power politics yielding to world politics. The historian of international relations has to face this profound alteration of the subject matter that transforms him, like it or not, into a world historian. World politics owes much to its European origins even while it has outgrown them. Just as the study of modernization has become one of global modernization apart from mere Europeanization, the study of power..." @default.
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