Stephen Wertheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 4228779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Wertheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wertheim |
| SIGNATURE | WERTHEIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The End of Illusion
Instrumental Internationalism
Why did the United States want to create the United Nations Organization, or any international political organization with universal membership? This question has received superficial historiographical attention, despite ample scrutiny of the conferences that directly established the UN in 1944 and 1945. The answer lies earlier in the war, from 1940 to 1942, when, under the pressure of fast-moving events, American officials and intellectuals deci…
The birth of global knowledge
The League of Nations
During the First World War, civil society groups across the North Atlantic put forward an array of plans for recasting international society. The most prominent ones sought to build on the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 by developing international legal codes and, in a drastic innovation, obligating and militarily enforcing the judicial settlement of disputes. Their ideal was a world governed by law, which they opposed to politics. This idea …
The League That Wasn't
Journal Article The League That Wasn't: American Designs for a Legalist-Sanctionist League of Nations and the Intellectual Origins of International Organization, 1914–1920 Get access Stephen Wertheim Stephen Wertheim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 797–836, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.00986.x Published: 28 September 2011
On moralism and Rwanda
A solution from hell
This article traces the rise of humanitarian interventionist ideas in the US from 1991 to 2003. Until 1997, humanitarian intervention was a relatively limited affair, conceived ad hoc more than systematically, prioritized below multilateralism, aiming to relieve suffering without transforming foreign polities. For this reason, US leaders and citizens scarcely contemplated armed intervention in the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the US 'duty to stop ge…
Reluctant Liberator
Theodore Roosevelt is well known as an imperialist. The common understanding is both too weak and too strong. Too weak, because Roosevelt idealized an imperialism that could last forever in civilizing savages. Too strong, because Roosevelt prepared the American‐occupied Philippines for independence within a generation. This article analyzes Roosevelt's philosophy of self‐government and reinterprets his Philippines policy in light of the philosoph…
Instrumental Internationalism
Why did the United States want to create the United Nations Organization, or any international political organization with universal membership? This question has received superficial historiographical attention, despite ample scrutiny of the conferences that directly established the UN in 1944 and 1945. The answer lies earlier in the war, from 1940 to 1942, when, under the pressure of fast-moving events, American officials and intellectuals deci…
Reluctant Liberator
Theodore Roosevelt is well known as an imperialist. The common understanding is both too weak and too strong. Too weak, because Roosevelt idealized an imperialism that could last forever in civilizing savages. Too strong, because Roosevelt prepared the American‐occupied Philippines for independence within a generation. This article analyzes Roosevelt's philosophy of self‐government and reinterprets his Philippines policy in light of the philosoph…
The League of Nations
During the First World War, civil society groups across the North Atlantic put forward an array of plans for recasting international society. The most prominent ones sought to build on the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 by developing international legal codes and, in a drastic innovation, obligating and militarily enforcing the judicial settlement of disputes. Their ideal was a world governed by law, which they opposed to politics. This idea …
A solution from hell
This article traces the rise of humanitarian interventionist ideas in the US from 1991 to 2003. Until 1997, humanitarian intervention was a relatively limited affair, conceived ad hoc more than systematically, prioritized below multilateralism, aiming to relieve suffering without transforming foreign polities. For this reason, US leaders and citizens scarcely contemplated armed intervention in the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the US 'duty to stop ge…
The End of Illusion
On moralism and Rwanda
Reluctant Liberator
Theodore Roosevelt is well known as an imperialist. The common understanding is both too weak and too strong. Too weak, because Roosevelt idealized an imperialism that could last forever in civilizing savages. Too strong, because Roosevelt prepared the American‐occupied Philippines for independence within a generation. This article analyzes Roosevelt's philosophy of self‐government and reinterprets his Philippines policy in light of the philosoph…
A solution from hell
This article traces the rise of humanitarian interventionist ideas in the US from 1991 to 2003. Until 1997, humanitarian intervention was a relatively limited affair, conceived ad hoc more than systematically, prioritized below multilateralism, aiming to relieve suffering without transforming foreign polities. For this reason, US leaders and citizens scarcely contemplated armed intervention in the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the US 'duty to stop ge…
The League That Wasn't
Journal Article The League That Wasn't: American Designs for a Legalist-Sanctionist League of Nations and the Intellectual Origins of International Organization, 1914–1920 Get access Stephen Wertheim Stephen Wertheim Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 35, Issue 5, November 2011, Pages 797–836, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.00986.x Published: 28 September 2011
On moralism and Rwanda
The League of Nations
During the First World War, civil society groups across the North Atlantic put forward an array of plans for recasting international society. The most prominent ones sought to build on the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 by developing international legal codes and, in a drastic innovation, obligating and militarily enforcing the judicial settlement of disputes. Their ideal was a world governed by law, which they opposed to politics. This idea …
The birth of global knowledge
Instrumental Internationalism
Why did the United States want to create the United Nations Organization, or any international political organization with universal membership? This question has received superficial historiographical attention, despite ample scrutiny of the conferences that directly established the UN in 1944 and 1945. The answer lies earlier in the war, from 1940 to 1942, when, under the pressure of fast-moving events, American officials and intellectuals deci…
The End of Illusion
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