POLI 346 Lecture 5: POLI 346 sept 17

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 346
• Professor: Mark Brawley

Document Summary

Now state players and departments are expanded, more frictions showing up as we go forward. Individual-level: policy will change as leaders change compare tr vs. taft or. Wilson: 1912 election is very important (wilson wins, but if repubs kept act together he wouldn"t have, roosevelt and wilson have radically different views on what direction us should go. Different idea about power and war (roosevelt) We are militarily weak, no one expects us, not a threat, no problem going in. We have the moral high ground how wilson described it: wilson wanted the us involved diplomatically (but though carrying a big stick unnecessary) Roosevelt though-- allies are good, germans bad (we have clean favorites) motivate public opinion against wilson"s stance to get. Us involved in war: in fact, in 1915 wilson angered to hear that the us army general staff had plans for a possible war with germany. Wilson doesn"t like how this looks diplomatically.