Well, you know, he was like a humanist, wanted to be president to help the people... but was forced to focus on international catastrophy.
Then, when it was all over, he wanted to create, a League of Nations...! to maintain world peace...
(awesome, sounds like alan moore stuff)
...in order to stop a thing like another world war from happening.
But!
International protectionism set in, and everyone was against him, and he gave himself a stroke campaigning for the League! He was a crusader for peace and made himself a martyr.
That was his end, and the nations of the world acted let everything fester leading to the second world war!
What he was worried about came true, and now we have the United Nations etc. trying to do the same.
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I'm about to dump a whole lot of cold water here.
Wilsonianism laid the ground for a lot of what the Bush administration did: global interventionism on the justification that it is our obligation to spread American values as embodied by the principles of liberal democracy. Consensus building, my ass. More like forming alliances with countries that were already aligned with our strategic interests, thought the way America did, and weren't in a position to go against what this country wanted. The UN's the same way; the U.S. only participates in the organization when it behooves it to do so---it's always been this way with various alliances. Thing is, some countries, especially Asian ones, have found ways to thrive and prosper while having authoritarian governments, i.e., Singapore, but this is too problematic to admit to because of the implications involved.
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