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The Wilsonian Century – U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900
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The Wilsonian Century – U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900 Paperback - 2001

by Frank Ninkovich

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Univ of Chicago Pr, 2001. Paperback. New. 330 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Wilsonian Century – U.S. Foreign Policy since 1900
  • Author Frank Ninkovich
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 330
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of Chicago Pr, CHICAGO, ILL.
  • Date 2001
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0226581365
  • ISBN 9780226581361 / 0226581365
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.06 x 0.83 in (23.11 x 15.39 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number LC98014219
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.9

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For most of this century, American foreign policy was guided by a set of assumptions that were formulated during World War I by President Woodrow Wilson. In this incisive reexamination, Frank Ninkovich argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a crusading, idealistic doctrine, was reactive, practical, and grounded in fear. Wilson and his successors believed it absolutely essential to guard against world war or global domination, with the underlying aim of safeguarding and nurturing political harmony and commercial cooperation among the great powers. As the world entered a period of unprecedented turbulence, Wilsonianism became a "crisis internationalism" dedicated to preserving the benign vision of "normal internationalism" with which the United States entered the twentieth century.

In the process of describing Wilson's legacy, Ninkovich reinterprets most of the twentieth century's main foreign policy developments. He views the 1920s, for example, not as an isolationist period but as a reversion to Taft's Dollar Diplomacy. The Cold War, with its faraway military interventions, illustrates Wilsonian America's preoccupation with achieving a cohesive world opinion and its abandonment of traditional, regional conceptions of national interest.

The Wilsonian Century offers a striking alternative to traditional interest-based interpretations of U.S. foreign policy. In revising the usual view of Wilson's contribution, Ninkovich shows the extraordinary degree to which Wilsonian ideas guided American policy through a century of conflict and tension.

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With this book, Frank Ninkovich offers a striking examination of Woodrow Wilson's influence on twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. He argues that the Wilsonian outlook, far from being a crusading, utopian doctrine, was a creative, practical response to catastrophic great power wars that threatened to reverse the progressive course of modern history. Ninkovich shows how Wilsonian "crisis internationalism" guided U.S. foreign relations through a century of global turbulence and made possible the emergence of today's globalizing society.

About the author

Frank Ninkovich is a professor of history at St. John's University, New York. He is the author of several books, including Modernity and Power: A History of the Domino Theory in the Twentieth Century, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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