Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today

by Tony Smith

Book Overview

How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed--and how America can fulfill it again

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117167X
• ISBN13: 9780691171678
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"