American foreign relations since Woodrow Wilson have been marked, on way or another, by his attempt to accomplish the dual task of bringing the United States into the world while maintaining purity and distance. In these final remarks, the author considers Wilson’s project and then follows the vicissitudes of American “destiny” during the twentieth century against the background ending with a reflection on the period after the Second World War when the United States began to think of itself as leader of the free world.
