Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought)

This book considers eleven twelve key thinkers on American foreign policy during the inter-war period. All put forward systematic proposals for the direction, aims and instruments of American foreign policy; all were listened to, in varying degrees, by the policy makers of the day; all were influential in policy terms, as well as setting the terms of contemporary debate. The focus of the volume is the progressive agenda as it was formulated by Herbert Croly and The New Republic in the run-up to the First World War. An interest in the inter-war period has been sparked by America's part in international politics since 9/11. The neo-conservative ideology behind recent US foreign policy, its democratic idealism backed with force, is likened to a new-Wilsonianism. However, the progressives were more wary of the use of force than contemporary neo-conservatives. The unique focus of this volume and its contextual, Skinnerian approach provides a more nuanced understanding of US foreign policy debates of the long Progressive era than we presently have and provides an important intellectual background to current debates.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Introduction: Progressivism in America Between the Two World Wars (Cornelia Navari, Molly Cochran)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Elihu Root, International Law, and the World Court (Greg Russell)....Pages 23-47 Nicholas Murray Butler and “The International Mind” as the Pathway to Peace (David Clinton)....Pages 49-72 Progressivism Triumphant? Isaiah Bowman’s New Diplomacy in a New World (Lucian M. Ashworth)....Pages 73-90 Leo Pasvolsky and an Open World Economy (Andrew Williams)....Pages 91-113 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 John Dewey: A Pragmatist’s Search for Peace in the Aftermath of Total War (Charles F. Howlett)....Pages 117-141 The “Newer Ideals” of Jane Addams’s Progressivism: A Realistic Utopia of Cosmopolitan Justice (Molly Cochran)....Pages 143-165 James T. Shotwell and the Organisation of Peace (Cornelia Navari)....Pages 167-191 Harold D. Lasswell and the Social Study of Personal Insecurity (Mikael Baaz)....Pages 193-217 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 The Niebuhr Brothers’ Debate and the Ethics of Just War vs. Pacifism: Progressivism and the Social Gospel (Cecelia Lynch)....Pages 221-239 Beyond Hemispherism: Charles Beard’s Vision of World Order (Christopher McKnight Nichols)....Pages 241-267 A Lapsed Progressive: Walter Lippmann and US Foreign Policy, 1914–1945 (David Milne)....Pages 269-294 Hans Morgenthau’s Pilgrimage Among the Engineers (Patrick Thaddeus Jackson)....Pages 295-314 Back Matter ....Pages 315-328