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Title: American World Policies

Author: Walter E. Weyl

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AMERICAN WORLD POLICIES

BY

WALTER E. WEYL

AUTHOR OF "THE NEW DEMOCRACY," ETC.

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1917

COPYRIGHT, 1917,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1917.

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK -- BOSTON -- CHICAGO -- DALLAS
ATLANTA -- SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

LONDON -- BOMBAY -- CALCUTTA -- MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD.

TORONTO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I

OUR IDEALISTIC PAST

CHAPTER PAGE

I AMERICA AMONG THE NATIONS . . . . . . . . . . 1
II THE SKELETON OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
III PEACE WITHOUT EFFORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
IV AN UNRIPE IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
V FACING OUTWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

PART II

THE ROOT OF IMPERIALISM

VI THE INTEGRATION OF THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . 75
VII THE ROOT OF IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . . 85
VIII IMPERIALISM AND WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
IX INDUSTRIAL INVASION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
X THE REVOLT AGAINST IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . 126
XI THE APPEAL OF IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . 140
XII THE AMERICAN DECISION . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

PART III

TOWARDS ECONOMIC INTERNATIONALISM

XIII NATURAL RESOURCES AND PEACE . . . . . . . . . 169
XIV AN ANTIDOTE TO IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . 186
XV AMERICAN INTERESTS ABROAD . . . . . . . . . . 201
XVI PACIFISM STATIC AND DYNAMIC . . . . . . . . . 217
XVII TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . 231
XVIII THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS . . . . . . . . . . . 246
XIX THE HIGHER IMPERIALISM . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
XX THE FO