Four new takes on Wilson, World War I, and the making of the post-war order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11158751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross A Kennedy (Illinois State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1058-1070 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402390.2018.1438894 |
| OpenAlex | W2791644141 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The books under review here, by Robert F. Hannigan, John A. Thompson, Trygve Throntveit, and Adam Tooze, offer an interpretation of Wilsonian internationalism and what happened to it in the 1920s. For Tooze and Hannigan, Wilsonianism was primarily a project to attain American predominance in the world. For Throntveit, Wilsonian internationalism constituted a pragmatic yet radical effort to end competitive power politics. Thompson disagrees with these arguments and asserts that the key to understanding US policy lay in how US leaders conceptualized American power. Thompson’s interpretation is especially compelling in explaining why the United States failed to engage itself more assertively in international affairs in the 1920s – a failure Tooze suggests undermined the viability of the postwar international system
Cold war · Economic history · Foreign policy · International relations · Internationalism (politics · Interpretation (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · World order · World War II · History · Law · Philosophy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |