Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities After the Great WarThe settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international order were understood after the Great War and into the present. Beyond Versailles argues that this transformation of ideas was not the work of the treaty makers alone, but emerged in interaction with nationalist groups, anti colonial movements, and regional