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Description of  Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics, 152)

How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayedand how America can fulfill it again The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world powerand also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with the spirit of Woodrow Wilsons efforts at the League of Nations to "make the world safe for democracy," the United States steered a course in world affairs that would eventually win the Cold War. Yet in the 1990s, Wilsonianism turned imperialist, contributing directly to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the continued failures of American foreign policy. Read more