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Why Wilson matters : the origin of American liberal internationalism and its crisis today /

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 Unit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Tony, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Know thyself : what is "Wilsonianism"?
  • Woodrow Wilson on democracy promotion in America
  • Democracy promotion through progressive imperialism
  • Democracy promotion through multilateralism
  • Wilson's Wilsonianism
  • Wilsonianism : the construction of an American vernacular
  • The rise of neo-Wilsonian theory
  • From theory to practice : neo-Wilsonianism in the White House, 2001-2017
  • Conclusion: Reviving liberal internationalism.