TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Tony
TI  - Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today 
T2  - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
SN  - 9780691171678
AV  - JZ1469 
U1  - 327.73 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - International relations
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American democracy
KW  - American exceptionalism
KW  - American foreign policy
KW  - American liberal internationalism
KW  - American national security
KW  - Bretton Woods system
KW  - Bush Doctrine
KW  - European Union
KW  - Germany
KW  - Iraq Resolution
KW  - Japan
KW  - League of Nations
KW  - Marshall Plan
KW  - Mexican Revolution
KW  - NSS-2002
KW  - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
KW  - Obama presidency
KW  - Panama Canal
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Wilsonian tradition
KW  - Wilsonianism
KW  - Woodrow Wilson
KW  - collective security
KW  - democracy promotion
KW  - democracy
KW  - democratic government
KW  - democratic institutions
KW  - democratic life
KW  - democratic order
KW  - democratic peace theory
KW  - democratic people
KW  - democratic society
KW  - democratic transition theory
KW  - democratic world
KW  - freedom
KW  - hegemony
KW  - human rights
KW  - international system
KW  - invasion of Iraq
KW  - just war doctrine
KW  - liberal internationalism
KW  - liberal internationalist community
KW  - liberal internationalist tradition
KW  - militant foreign policy
KW  - multilateralism
KW  - national security
KW  - neo-Wilsonianism
KW  - political responsibility
KW  - progressive imperialism
KW  - protection
KW  - self-governing peoples
KW  - world affairs
KW  - world peace
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; INTRODUCTION. Know Thyself: What Is "Wilsonianism"? --; PART I. THE ESSENTIAL WILSON: WILSON'S WILSONIANISM --; CHAPTER ONE. Woodrow Wilson on Democracy Promotion in America --; CHAPTER TWO. Democracy Promotion through Progressive Imperialism --; CHAPTER THREE. Democracy Promotion through Multilateralism --; CHAPTER FOUR. Wilson's Wilsonianism --; PART II. WILSONIANISM AFTER WILSON --; CHAPTER FIVE. Wilsonianism: The Construction of an American Vernacular --; CHAPTER SIX. The Rise of Neo- Wilsonian Theory --; CHAPTER SEVEN. From Theory to Practice: Neo- Wilsonianism in the White House, 2001-2017 --; CONCLUSION. Reviving Liberal Internationalism --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The 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 "make the world safe for democracy," 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 "neo-Wilsonianism" 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 "classic" era with Wilson, to its "hegemonic" stage during the Cold War, to its "imperialist" phase today. Smith calls for an end to reckless forms of U.S. foreign intervention, and a return to the prudence and "eternal vigilance" 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
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