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In January 1919, the Paris Peace Conference convened to negotiate peace agreements that would shape the new international system. The several outcomes of the Paris Conference were as follows:

• The peace treaties, mainly the Treaty of Versailles, constituted a new Europe in which Germany and other defeated states had substantially lost their pre-war status. This ended the great power model of the Concert of Europe and formed a new great power hierarchy in which Britain and Franceseemed to dominate.

• The conference marked the emergence of great non-European powers (namely the United States and Japan) and the end of European dominance over the international system. It also undermined the value system on which the pre-war international system had been built. The 1907 Hague Conference and Wilson’s Fourteen Points set the basis for the reconstruction of a new set of values for
the emerging international system.

• As the globalization of theinternational system had already been underway before the outbreak of the war, the proposed system structure was made concrete at the Paris Peace Conference by creation of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was designed to serve as a forum where member states could work on a new model of open diplomacy toward solving their disputes.