Wilson's Progressive Foreign Policy Term Paper by Nicky

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States.  But, before he became President, he was first a college professor, a historian, and a state governor. Under Wilson’s term as President, the US passed the Federal Reserve Act, introduced anti-trust legislation, achieved victory in WW1, and proposed the League of Nations.  Wilson retired in 1921 and died three years later on February 3, 1924.  In tribute to President Wilson, this week’s Paper of the Week is paper #148872, entitled “Wilson’s Progressive Foreign Policy”.  The paper both describes world affairs during Wilson’s presidency as well as the political philosophy that guided Wilson’s response to those world affairs.  In particular, this paper details Wilson’s progressive approach to foreign policy, examines the objectives and intentions of this foreign policy, discusses its flaws, and describes its impact on US future foreign policy.  Paper #148872 is a well-written, intriguing document about the 28th President of the US, President Woodrow Wilson. 

The paper discusses Woodrow Wilson's perspective of entitlement in the procession of world affairs and how this notion of progressivism would have a formative impact on the development of the United States and its related geopolitical identity. The paper looks at how Wilson's approach to progressive ideals initially differed considerably from the approach taken by former President Theodore Roosevelt. The paper then asserts that the progressive democratic interests of Wilsonian politics would ultimately serve in many historical contexts as the exploitable impetus by which American presidents have pursued imperial ends. The paper also points out that there is a fundamental flaw in the progressive nature of Wilsonian logic in that it included assumptions of Caucasian racial superiority and Christian moral denomination.