Woodrow Wilson Center S cholar Larry Berman has been at the Woodrow Wilson Center this past year, researching a book he is writing on Vietnam. He takes a remarkably even-handed approach to this sensitive subject, refusing to side against the government actors whose actions precipiated the crisis that led to the War. And U.S. soldiers have long expressed the view that they were undercut by the political management of the war. Woodrow Wilson Center A ccording to international affairs scholar John Ikenberry, U.S. foreign policy is inextricably bound up in America's quest to further democracy around the world. Indeed, American wars, whether foreign or domestic, have been wars about defining democracy.
World peace is in no sense guaranteed.
Theoretical Essays, a collection edited by John Ikenberry. How people interact, Lasch-Quinn finds, had a great impact on the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement, one that is still being felt on today's race relations. Lasch-Quinn said she regrets that American society missed critical opportunities in the 1960s for pulling together Americans across color lines, resulting in today's fragmentation.