1st Edition
Wilsonian Approaches to American Conflicts From the War of 1812 to the First Gulf War
Introduction
Chapter One: A Wilsonian Interpretation
Chapter Two: The First World War
Chapter Three: The War of 1812
Chapter Four: The Korean War
Chapter Five: The Gulf War
Chapter Six: Conclusion
Biography
Ashley Cox is a Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, University of London. His research interests focus on US diplomacy, foreign and defence policy both contemporary and historical. He is a member of BISA, the US Foreign Policy Working Group, the Learning and Teaching Working Group, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the British Association for American Studies.
"This meticulous analysis is a welcome restoration of balance in the debates about Woodrow Wilson’s legacy. He locates Wilsons’s theories and practices in a consistent pattern starting with the War of 1812 and enduring through the Gulf wars. Cox explains how the fractious politics about the origins of America’s role in the world illuminates contemporary distortions about democracy and rules-based world orders that also shed light on realism’s limitations." - Linda B. Miller, Professor of Political Science, Emerita, Wellesley College, USA
"Cox’s research cleverly adds to the debate on US entry into a series of conflicts throughout US history. It suggests we have to consider Wilsonian explanations to these engagements as well economic and strategic ones. The end-product is a much richer understanding of why the US engages in conflict." - Matthew Alan Hill, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
