Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers - Brossura

Perlmutter, Amos

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ISBN 10: 0807857114 ISBN 13: 9780807857113

Casa editrice: University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions, 2009

Riassunto

In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues, shared certain characteristics that distinguished them from other attempts to restructure the international political scene. While Communism and Nazism were committed to imperial ideologies, Wilsonianism was inspired by an exceptionalist, peaceful, democratic, and free market world order. But all three were able to mobilize industrial, technological, and military resources in pursuing their goals. In the process of examining the democratic, Communist, and Nazi systems, Perlmutter also provides a framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy over the course of the century, particularly during the Cold War. He underscores the importance of ideology in establishing an international order, arguing that in the wake of the Soviet Union's demise, no system--not even Wilsonianism--can lay claim to the title of new world order.

Originally published in 1997.

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An insightful comparative analysis of the 20th century's three significant world orders.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807857114
• ISBN 13: 9780807857113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
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