In recent years, and in light of U.S. attempts to project power in
the world, the presidency of Woodrow Wilson has been more commonly
invoked than ever before. Yet "Wilsonianism" has often been
distorted by a concentration on American involvement in the First
World War. In "Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering
America's Neutrality, 1914-1917," prominent scholar Robert Tucker
turns the focus to the years of neutrality. Arguing that our
neglect of this prewar period has reduced the complexity of the
historical Wilson to a caricature or stereotype, Tucker reveals the
importance that the law of neutrality played in Wilson's foreign
policy during the fateful years from 1914 to 1917, and in doing so
he provides a more complete portrait of our nation's twenty-eighth
president.
By focusing on the years leading up to America's involvement in
the Great War, Tucker reveals that Wilson's internationalism was
always highly qualified, dependent from the start upon the advent
of an international order that would forever remove the specter of
another major war. World War I was the last conflict in which the
law of neutrality played an important role in the calculations of
belligerents and neutrals, and it is scarcely an exaggeration to
say that this law -- or rather Woodrow Wilson's version of it --
constituted almost the whole of his foreign policy with regard to
the war. Wilson's refusal to find any significance, moral or
otherwise, in the conflict beyond the law and its violation led him
to see the war as meaningless, save for the immense suffering and
sense of utter futility it fostered.
Treating issues of enduring interest, such as the advisability
and effectiveness of U.S.interventions in, or initiation of,
conflicts beyond its borders, "Woodrow Wilson and the Great War"
will appeal to anyone interested in the president's power to
determine foreign policy, and in constitutional history in
general.
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