{"id":4005,"date":"2020-10-01T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?page_id=4005"},"modified":"2023-08-27T00:05:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T00:05:30","slug":"wilsonian-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/course-syllabus\/wilsonian-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilsonian Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What lessons should policymakers learn from Woodrow Wilson?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

CHAPTER 10:\u00a0 “A New Age”: Wilson, the Great War, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1913-1922<\/h3>\n

“Wilson towers above the landscape of modern American foreign policy like no other individual, the dominant personality, the seminal figure.” (Herring, p. 379)<\/p>\n

\u2013George C. Herring,\u00a0From Colony to Superpower:\u00a0 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 379.<\/p>\n

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Making the World “Safe for Democracy”<\/strong>\"1917\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wilson’s Foreign Policy Team<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Can you identify these three key figures from the Wilson Administration?<\/p><\/div>\n

Defining the Wilsonian Foreign Policy Landscape\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Great War also sparked a debate over basic foreign policy principles that would rage until World War II and persist in modified form thereafter.\u00a0 Breaking with hallowed tradition, those who came to be called internationalists insisted that the American way of life could be preserved only through active, permanent involvement in world politics.” (Herring, p. 406)<\/p>\n

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  • Conservative Internationalists<\/li>\n
  • Progressive Internationalists<\/li>\n
  • Isolationists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Wilsonianism in an Age of Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n

    “Wilson’s response to these revolutions revealed his good intentions and the difficulties of their implementation.” (Herring, p. 383)<\/p>\n

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    • Mexico (1910)<\/li>\n
    • China (1911)<\/li>\n
    • Russia (1917)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Student-produced map for Coming of WWI (Imran Hasan)<\/p>\n