page_title: Liberal internationalism
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Liberal internationalism / History
caption_attribution_description: Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America.
context_page_description: Liberal internationalism is a foreign policy doctrine that argues that liberal states should intervene in other sovereign states in order to pursue liberal objectives. Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid. This view is contrasted to isolationist, realist, or non-interventionist foreign policy doctrines; these critics characterize it as liberal interventionism.
context_section_description: Liberal internationalism emerged during the nineteenth century, notably under the auspices of British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, and was developed in the second decade of the 20th century under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. In this form it became known as Wilsonianism.
caption: Liberal internationalism was developed in the second decade of the 20th century under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
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