To create a new world?
Subtitle: American presidents and the United Nations
By: John Allphin Moore, Jr. and Jerry Pubantz.
Contributors: Pubantz, Jerry, 1947-
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: United Nations -- History; Presidents -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Description: "To Create A New World? describes the influence of U.S. presidents from FDR to Bill Clinton on the creation, development, policies, and reform of the United Nations. This book highlights idealism, American exceptionalism, and realism as motivating ideas in each president's approach toward the world body.

From the moment of Woodrow Wilson's efforts to breathe life into the League of Nations at Versailles to the onset of the new millennium, presidential administrations have had to balance instinctive American idealist notions of international cooperation with realist concerns to defend and preserve U.S. interests. The resultant tension in U.S. policy toward the United Nations provides the book's motif."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-368) and index.