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The Janus Face of International Politics - Jan Smuts at the Paris Peace Conference (Hardcover)
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The Janus Face of International Politics - Jan Smuts at the Paris Peace Conference (Hardcover)
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This work investigates the 'Janus face' of international relations,
refracted through the prism of the duality of Jan Christian Smuts,
as it manifested in his contribution to the League of Nations and
his struggle against the emerging peace treaty. A predominant
characteristic of international relations is its requirement to
face two different ways at the same time - its Janus face. States
profess their adherence to lofty ideals for humanity alongside the
pursuit of their own immediate self-interest. This phenomenon in
the behaviour of states has been referred to as the distance
between vision and reality, and the gap between rhetoric and
reality. International relations is, and is likely to remain,
suspended between these two extremes: on the one hand, the pursuit
of utopian ideals for the world, and, on the other, a defence of
narrow self-interest, often prompted by the dictates of the
realpolitik of the moment. How, then, are the values that underlie
the founding of the first cornerstone of the current international
order - the League of Nations - to be understood? An under-explored
case study in understanding the complex framework of international
relations is that of the visionary and controversial South African,
Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950). On the one hand, Smuts was one of
the principal authors of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and
the person directly responsible for the recognition of human rights
as a founding value of the Charter of the United Nations. On the
other, the Premier of racially segregated South Africa.
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