However, it was an aspect that repeatedly threatened to thrust itself into the center of the war, transforming the entire nature of the conflict and indeed threatening to overturn the entire existing world system. It is indeed true that, as things turned out, the international strategic dimension of the 1861-65 conflict was of secondary importance.
In offering a survey of some of the main issues involved, one feels required to justify the importance of the topic. One hundred fifty years after the attack on Fort Sumter, the international strategic dimension of the American Civil War represents a much-neglected aspect of Civil War studies. " Who was our friend when the world was our foe.".
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