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Woodrow Wilson and the Great War - Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914-1917 (Paperback)
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Woodrow Wilson and the Great War - Reconsidering America's Neutrality, 1914-1917 (Paperback)
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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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