History seminar. He is cool editor of the global and International History theories for Cambridge University press. Volume empires on war, 1911 to 1923, which refrains the history of the great war as a global war vampires and the will sony moment. Selfdetermination in the International Origins of and to colonial nationalism. He will close or symposium with a lecture that explores how president wilsons ideas and convictions were formed, how they shape the peace settlement and how that continues to impact us today. Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming doctor erez manela. Thank you for that kind introduction. I want to thank laura and matt, and everybody on the staff at the World War One Museum and memorial. Including, everyone who kept us organized and well fed through these two days. This is the second time, as you mentioned. That i have worked with this group. I have been amazed by your intellectual engagement and you organizational history. I would like to take a moment t
Globalization and my work that most pertains to our panel today is a book called promise and peril america at the dawn of a global age. Just out in paperback. You can buy it downstairs. I have the distinct pleasure of being the chair and coorganizer of this really exciting panel i think and i hope youll agree once were done. Its a fascinating topic with tremendous contemporary relevance as well as historygraphical significance. U. S. Foreign relations before and after that kept us out of war election. This is really not just about u. S. Foreign relations but also world relations, international relations. Now, the spark for this panel is the centennial of the 1916 election in which Woodrow Wilson ran on a he kept us out of war platform despite the military interventions ongoing in mexico and the caribbean. Marking the centennial of this election this round table brings together superb historians with a wide array of focuses to address whether or not 1916 should be seen as the end of an