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The Origins of Revisionist and Status-quo States The Origins of Revisionist and Status-quo States jason W. Davidson * THE ORIGINS OF REVISIONIST AND STATUS-QUO STATES © jason W. Davidson, 2006. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-7181-4 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin's Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-73623-2 ISBN 978-1-137-09201-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-09201-4 A previous version of the Fascist Italy case study in chapter 3, "The Roots of Revisionism: Revolutionary France and Fascist Italy," originally appeared as "The Roots of Revisionism: Fascist Italy, 1922-1939," copyright 2002 from Security Studies by jason W. Davidson. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Davidson, jason. The origins of revisionist and status-quo states I jason W. Davidson. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The enduring importance of revisionism and status-quo seeking-Pressures and opportunities: the origins of revisionism and status-quo seeking-The roots of revisionism: revolutionary France and fascist Italy-The sources of status-quo seeking: pre-World War I Britain and interwar France. 1. State, The. 2. Realism-Political aspects. 3. International relations. I. Title. jZ1316.D38 2006 320.1-dc22 2005049541 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: May 2006 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Transferred to Digital Printing 2011 Contents List ofF igures Vll Acknowledgments IX The Enduring Importance of Revisionism and Status-quo Seeking 2 Pressures and Opportunities: The Roots of Revisionism and Status-quo Seeking 19 3 The Roots of Revisionism: Revolutionary France and Fascist Italy 49 4 The Sources of Status-quo Seeking: Pre-World War I Britain and Interwar France 89 5 Evaluating the Argument and the Future of Revisionism 129 Notes 151 Bibliography 209 Index 229 List of Figures 2.1 Rising states and revisionism 42 2.2 Declining states and status-quo seeking 43 3.1 France's "natural frontiers" goals, 1793 51 3.2 Italy's Mare Nostrum goals, 1939 66 Acknowledgments I began this book project at Georgetown University and have many to thank for the contributions they made while I was there. Several members of the faculty read part or all of the manuscript in its early stages; I offer my sincere thanks to Thomas Banchoff, Andrew Bennett, Bernard Fine!, Gregory Flynn, Joseph Lepgold, Robert Lieber, and Danny Unger for their contributions. Thanks also to Cornell University's Christopher Way for his feedback on a conference paper version of the Revolutionary France case study. Randall Schweller of Ohio State University deserves special mention as his ideas provided the foundation for this project and his trenchant criticism made this book better than it otherwise would have been. Finally, I extend my sincere thanks to Charles Kupchan for his crucial guidance and feedback. I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude for the helpful feedback I received from those who were among the graduate students while I was at Georgetown. I am sincerely grateful to Aharon Barth, Carl Brenner, Tanja Flanagan, Jennifer Hazen, Bradley Holst, Rebecca Johnson, Philipp Muller, and Tamara Wittes for the time they spent reading and commenting on the manuscript. Thanks especially to Mira Sucharov who did much more than her fair share. I finished this book at the University of Mary Washington. I very much appreciate the assistance I received from Carla Bailey, Porter Blakemore, Stephen Farnsworth, Charlotte Houtchens, John Kramer, Dora Minor, and Jerry Slezak. I thank Elizabeth Larus for her helpful comments on my discussion of contemporary China. I am grateful to Stephen Hanna for creating the maps for the book. I also thank Sarah Simpson for her help creating the index. Thanks to Jeremy Black of Exeter University for his feedback on the map of France's 1793 "natural frontiers" goals. I am especially grateful to Thomas Wright for his very useful comments on a penultimate draft of the entire manuscript.
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