루즈벨트와 미국의 국제주의로의 전환: 국내외 상황, 여론, 리더십

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It has been widely acknowledged that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s leadership played the prime role in getting the United States to break away from traditional isolationism and to participate in the World War Ⅱ. Given this premise, this article aims at describing the major characteristics of FDR’s presidential leadership, putting the international circumstances from 1933 through 1941 in perspective. FDR’s successful leadership was such a shrewd and prudent one that he was able to take full advantage of both international and domestic parameters. He was able to give limited but appropriate commitment to internationalism faced with German offensive in Europe and the Atlantic, while taking every effort to avoid the criticism of the public opinion and Congress on his internationalist tendency until the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor. FDR’s prudent path toward internationalism was a mixed outcome of his political realism that the national security of the United States could not be guaranteed without her active involvement and of his political sense that the active involvement in world affairs, in its turn, needed strong domestic public support as a prerequisite.

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