AFP NOTES 1/22

American foreign policy founded on the idea of American 'exceptionalism'

john winthrop (1630)-said something about a 'city on a hill'
manifest destiny is the underscoring of the debate on american exceptionalism
-how should america fulfill its manifest destiny (force or example?) (imperial or republican model?) (expansion vs perfection?) (interventionist vs isolationist)

Lead by example-
-Federalists, then whigs, then republicans
Lead by force-
-Democratic party
in 1844, there was an actual battle between the two parties (Polk for democrats and Clay for republicans), polk owned
in 1898, the parties flipped, but the prevailing view stayed the same- still massively expansionist

1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson
-wwi, league of nations
there were on one side interventionists/unilateralists
on another side the isolationists/unilateralists
-what WILSON did was introduce a third side- multilateralism- in the search for american security