Synopses & Reviews
Describes the influence of US presidents from FDR to Clinton on the creation, development, policies, and reform of the UN. Suggests that Woodrow Wilson joined the idea of America's exceptionalism to the 20th-century US foreign policy of internationalism, and discusses alternative approaches to foreign policy challenges sometimes characterized as realist and idealist. A bibliography lists primary and secondary sources, and speeches, reports, documentation, and web sites.
Synopsis
To Create a New World? describes the influence of U.S. presidents from FDR to Bill Clinton on the creation, development, policies, and reform of the United Nations. This book highlights idealism, American exceptionalism, and realism as motivating ideas in each president's approach toward the world body. From the moment of Woodrow Wilson's efforts to breathe life into the League of Nations at Versailles to the onset of the new millennium, presidential administrations have had to balance instinctive American idealist notions of international cooperation with realist concerns to defend and preserve U.S. interests. The resultant tension in U.S. policy toward the United Nations provides the book's motif.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.