Why Wilson Matters (eBook)

The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today

Tony Smith (Autor)

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2017
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8340-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Tony Smith is the Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His many books include America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy and The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century (both Princeton).

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How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed-and how America can fulfill it againThe liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power-and also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's efforts at the League of Nations to "e;make the world safe for democracy,"e; the United States steered a course in world affairs that would eventually win the Cold War. Yet in the 1990s, Wilsonianism turned imperialist, contributing directly to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the continued failures of American foreign policy.Why Wilson Matters explains how the liberal internationalist community can regain a sense of identity and purpose following the betrayal of Wilson's vision by the brash "e;neo-Wilsonianism"e; being pursued today. Drawing on Wilson's original writings and speeches, Tony Smith traces how his thinking about America's role in the world evolved in the years leading up to and during his presidency, and how the Wilsonian tradition went on to influence American foreign policy in the decades that followed-for good and for ill. He traces the tradition's evolution from its "e;classic"e; era with Wilson, to its "e;hegemonic"e; stage during the Cold War, to its "e;imperialist"e; phase today. Smith calls for an end to reckless forms of U.S. foreign intervention, and a return to the prudence and "e;eternal vigilance"e; of Wilson's own time.Why Wilson Matters renews hope that the United States might again become effectively liberal by returning to the sense of realism that Wilson espoused, one where the promotion of democracy around the world is balanced by the understanding that such efforts are not likely to come quickly and without costs.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: American democracy • American Exceptionalism • American foreign policy • American liberal internationalism • American national security • Anne-Marie Slaughter • Anti-Imperialism • authoritarianism • autocracy • barack obama • bolsheviks • Bretton Woods System • Bush Doctrine • Capitalism • Central Europe • Cold War • Collective Security • communism • Community of Democracies • comparative politics • consent of the governed • Constitution • Constitutionalism • containment • counter-revolutionary • credential • czechoslovakia • Deliberation • Democracy • democracy in America • Democracy Promotion • democratic government • democratic institutions • democratic life • democratic order • Democratic Peace Theory • democratic people • democratic society • democratic transition theory • Democratic Way • democratic world • Democratization • Dictatorship • European Union • exceptionalism • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Forms of Government • freedom • George H. W. Bush • George W. Bush • Germany • Government • grand strategy • Great Power • hegemony • Human Rights • Ideology • imperialism • Institution • Internationalism (politics) • International Law • International Relations • international system • invasion of Iraq • Iraq Resolution • Iraq War • Japan • Just war doctrine • Just War Theory • Larry Diamond • Latin America • League of Nations • Leninism • liberal democracy • liberal internationalism • liberal internationalist community • liberal internationalist tradition • Liberalism • Liberalism in the United States • Marshall Plan • Mexican Revolution • middle class • militant foreign policy • Militarism • Monarchy • Multilateralism • national security • Nation-Building • Neoliberalism • neo-Wilsonianism • North Atlantic Treaty Organization • NSS-2002 • Obama Presidency • occupation of japan • panama canal • Patriotism • Philippines • Political Philosophy • Political Responsibility • Political Science • Political System • Politics • politics of the united states • Populism • President of the United States • Princeton University Press • progressive imperialism • protection • Regime • Representative Democracy • Responsibility to Protect • Revolution • Robert Kagan • Ronald Reagan • Rule of Law • Self-determination • self-governing peoples • Southeast Asia • Sovereignty • Soviet Empire • Soviet Union • State-Building • Totalitarianism • Treaty • united states declaration of independence • Westphalian Sovereignty • Wilsonianism • Wilsonian tradition • Woodrow Wilson • world affairs • World History • World Peace • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8340-7 / 1400883407
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8340-0 / 9781400883400