Professors John Moser and Jeremi Suri look at Wilsonianism in foreign policy post-Vietnam, particularly in the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Moser and Suri also look at foreign policy in the present day.

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Professor Jeremi Suri considers the influence of Wilsonianism on foreign policy since the presidencies of both Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Suri looks at this foreign policy school's supporters both during the Cold War and after.

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Professor John Moser considers the foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson, looking at his attempts to interject idealism into international affairs and whether these were naive or legitimate efforts.

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Professor Jeremi Suri discusses Henry Kissinger's foreign policy of detente. He looks at the effect Kissinger's policies had on Cold War diplomacy and how they affected the Cold War and the world as a whole, and also discusses the writing of academic books and articles.

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Professor John Moser considers the foreign policy of the Truman administration. He examines the Truman Doctrine, the origins of the policy of containment, and the impact of this policy on future administrations.

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Professor John Moser examines U.S. foreign policy and involvement during the 1920s, considering whether the claim that the country retreated into isolationism during this period is accurate or not.

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Professor Jeremi Suri looks at the foreign policy of Theodore Roosevelt and its balancing of both American republicanism and the classical European balance of power as the U.S. rose to become a world power.

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Professor Jeremi Suri considers the rise of nationalism in the early United States of the Founding Fathers. He examines where this nationalism may have originated from and how it influenced the country's foreign relations.

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Professors John Moser and Jeremi Suri overview several schools of foreign policy: republicanism, nationalism, balance of power, and Wilsonianism. They also review what is meant by foreign policy in general.

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