To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order

Thomas J. Knock

Princeton University Press, Mar 19, 2019 - History - 440 pages

A close look at Woodrow Wilson’s political thought and international diplomacy

In the widely acclaimed To End All Wars, Thomas Knock provides an intriguing, often provocative narrative of Woodrow Wilson’s epic quest for a new world order. This book follows Wilson’s thought and diplomacy from his policy toward revolutionary Mexico, through his dramatic call for “Peace without Victory” in World War I, to the Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations. Throughout, Knock reinterprets the origins of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson’s failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism—conservative and progressive.

Contents

• 1 A Political Autobiography: 3
• 2 Wilson and the Age of Socialist Inquiry: 15
• 3 Searching for a New Diplomacy: 31
• 4 The Political Origins of Progressive and Conservative Internationalism: 48
• 5 The Turning Point: 70
• The League and the Coalition of 1916: 85
• Manifestoes for Peace and War: 105
• The Travail of Progressive Internationalism and the Fourteen Points: 123
• The Wages of Delay and Repression: 148
• 10 The War Thus Comes to an End: 167
• 11 The Stern Covenanter: 194
• 12 A Practical Document and a Humane Document: 210
• 13 The Thing Reaches the Depths of Tragedy: 227
• 14 Wilsons Fate: 246
• Epilogue Echoes from Pueblo: 271
• Abbreviations: 277
• Notes: 279
• Bibliography: 341
• Index: 359

About the author

Thomas J. Knock is Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of The Rise of a Prairie Statesman and coauthor of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy (both Princeton).

Bibliographic information

• Title: To End All Wars, New Edition: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
• Author: Thomas J. Knock
• Contributor: Thomas J. Knock
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2019
• ISBN: 0691191921, 9780691191928
• Length: 440 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / United States / 20th Century; History / Wars & Conflicts / World War I; Political Science / International Relations / Diplomacy; Political Science / International Relations / General