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America in the world, past and present. Senior Fellow, @CarnegieEndow @CEIPStatecraft. Lecturer, @YaleLawSch. Historian and author, @TomoTheWorld. Views my own.

Jun 27, 2020, 5 tweets

About time. I would add that Wilson’s racism infused his vision of nationalism and internationalism. princeton.edu/news/2020/06/2…

Among others, see @JeanneMorefiel1’s Covenants Without Swords: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Mark Mazower’s No Enchanted Palace features how Wilson teamed up with South African segregationist Jan Smuts to design the League of Nations mandates system to oversee colonialism: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

https://t.co/rZYF5J1EE2

And here’s my own ditty on Wilson’s “organicist” political thought and why his internationalism should not provide inspiration for our own time: columbia.edu/~saw2156/TheWi…

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