The Meddler’s Trap W

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reºect the views of the U. [...] labor and industry, especially regarding tobacco.17 The scholarly neglect of this report and of McKinley’s worldviews are some of the many sources of misreading of the president.18 I argue that what I term the “meddler’s trap” best explains McKinley’s deci- sion to annex the Philippines. [...] The irony and tautology are that the problem, the solution, and the underlying value were all direct consequences of U. [...] Brieºy, “civiliza- International Security 48:2 54 The ideology of civilization informed McKinley’s judgments of the problem and the solution to the Philippines’ future, and the endowment effect was the cognitive factor that inºated the underlying value to those judgments. [...] December 10, 1898 Spain and the United States sign A Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain (also known as the Treaty of Paris and the Paris Peace Treaty).