Keylor Review Published in H-Diplo
William Keylor, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has reviewed the work of University of Virginia academic Steven Schuker for the social sciences journal H-Diplo.
The journal’s issue # 546 was published on August 5. In it, Keylor tackled Schuker’s two-part 2014 academic publication “John Maynard Keynes and the Personal Politics of Reparations.”
Said Keylor in the review:
One is hard put to imagine a more forbidding task than to review, absorb, and make sense out of the complex and often highly technical records of the Reparation Commission at the Peace Conference, the commission that was set up by the treaty and operated in the first half of the 1920s, as well as the private papers of the relevant officials–financial experts as well as political leaders– in those four countries whose activities determined the fate of the campaign to compel the Weimar Republic to endure the economic sacrifice required to repair the physical damage caused by the German armies on the Western Front during the war. Schuker’s general study of that complex topic, drawing on economic theory as well as a wide range of primary sources, set the standard for subsequent scholarship.
You can read the entire review, and find links to Schuker’s work, here.
Keylor has been a Guggenheim, Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, Earhart, and Whiting Fellow. He was elected to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, has been named Chevalier de L’Ordre National du Mérite by the French government, and has served as the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. Learn more about him here.