The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security

Kennedy's aim is to review the debate over national security for the years 1914 to 1920 - not just a part ot it - and to correct the views of those scholars who, in his judgment, overemphasize the role of "missionary idealism and trade concerns in Wilsonian diplomacy" and who pay &quo...

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Published in:The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Ind.), 2010, Vol.96 (4), p.1205-1206
Main Author: Neu, Charles E.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Judgment
Missionaries
National security
Nonfiction
Peace
Politics
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
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Summary:Kennedy's aim is to review the debate over national security for the years 1914 to 1920 - not just a part ot it - and to correct the views of those scholars who, in his judgment, overemphasize the role of "missionary idealism and trade concerns in Wilsonian diplomacy" and who pay "too little attention to the paradox at the heart of Wilson's national security strategy - that of practicing power politics to end power politics" (pp. xiii-xiv). TEe president, after all, knew that he was at the dawn of a new age of American power and responsibility, filled with perplexities, and that his bold efforts to rethink America's role in world affairs were bound to be incomplete.
ISSN:0021-8723
1936-0967
1945-2314
DOI:10.1093/jahist/96.4.1205a