The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9781400829774
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
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Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001–; Wilson Woodrow 1856–1924 -- Influence; International relations;

Ikenberry (Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition) frames the central debate that structures this slim collection of four scholarly essays when he asks, if "Bush is the heir of Woodrow Wilson," if the Iraq War in particular grew out of Wilsonianism and to what extent liberals "share the blame." His provocative thesis surveys the evolution of liberal internationalism and dovetails with the historical essay by Knock (To End All Wars) that follows, drawing a distinction between Wilsonianism and successive foreign policies, including "Cold War Globalism" and the policies of the Bush administration. The most heated argument in the text comes in the final two essays by Smith (A Pact with the Devil) and Slaughter (A New World Order). Smith argues that the Bush doctrine can, in fact, be labeled Wilsonian and that it issued from a "cross-fertilization" of ideas between neoconservatives and neoliberals, including Slaughter herself. Slaughter rebuts this version of events and articulates how Wilsonianism can create a foundation for 21st-century foreign policy. Collectively, the authors present a variety of arguments in a narrow academic debate with far-reaching implications. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed Slaughter director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, the first woman to hold that job. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family which made the Business Book of the Year 2015 shortlist in the UK.

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