Introduction: Interests versus interpretation in U. S. diplomatic history.
1. The emergence of normal internationalism, 1900-1913.
2. The Great War: Wilsonianism as crisis internationalism.
3. The 1920s: normal internationalism as utopia.
4. The 1930s and World War II: the crossroads of modern internationalism.
5. The cold war crisis and the normalization of Wilsonianism.
6. Wilsonianism at work: credibility crises of the 1950s and 1960s.
7. The Vietnam era and the dilemmas of Wilsonianism.
8. Ideological renewal and exhaustion: stumbling to the finish line of the cold war.
Conclusion: The return of normal internationalism and the end of the Wilsonian century.
