The unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1932 Patrick O. Cohrs This is a highly original and revisionist analysis of British and American efforts to forge a stable Euro-Atlantic peace order between 1919 and the rise of Hitler. Patrick O. Cohrs argues that this order was not founded at Versailles but rather through the first 'real' peace settlements after World War - The London reparations settlement of 1924 and the Locarno security pact of 1925. Crucially, both fostered Germany's integration into a fledgling transatlantic peace system, thus laying the only realistic foundations for European stability. What proved decisive was the leading actors' capacity to draw lessons form the 'Great War' and Versailles' shortcomings. Yet Cohrs also re-appraises why they could not sustain the new order, master its gravest crisis - the great Depression - and prevent the onslaught of Nazism. Despite this ultimate failure, he concludes that the 'unfinished peace' of the 1920s prefigured the terms on which a more durable peace could be built after 1945. Patrick O. Cohrs is a fellow at the John F. Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and a research fellow at the History Department of Humboldt University Berlin. He has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, in 2002 and 2003.