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Article Excerpt
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism. By Erez Manela. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 331 pp.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin and U.S. president Woodrow Wilson presented competing visions of the right of nations and peoples to self-determination. As opposed to a balance of power among unequal states, these new ideas suggested an international order of equal states operating collectively for their common security. For Wilson, the organization to provide this collective security was the League of Nations; for Lenin, it was the Comintern. In 1918, Wilson stated to Congress that self-determination was not "a mere phrase" but rather "an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril" (p. 41).
It was Wilson, and not Lenin, who captured the political imagination of oppressed peoples around...
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