Search: Fourteen Points,Pax Americana,Woodrow Wilson (2 materials)

An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: the Principles that Defined the American Age

... turned into a powerful tool of soft power determining America’s moral leadership In 1918, President of the United States Woodrow Wilson presented a draft peace treaty to Congress aimed at putting an end to four years of bloodshed caused by the First ... ... bargaining, maximizing the benefits of war or minimizing its damage, but not a fight on war itself. In this sense, Wilson’s Fourteen Points stood out in that they set forth the founding principles of international relations that were supposed to put ...

15.01.2018

Seven Debates over the Fourteen Points

... attempts to reconcile universalism and particularism were made during the Enlightenment in Europe. Many of the ideas voiced by Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points (especially those concerning openness) were very much in tune with the rhetoric of the British strategies of the ... ... specific situations: the same country can both be in favor and against individual dimensions of the liberal world order. Thus, the Pax Americana of the second half of the 20th century can be seen as an individual case of the selective use of liberal principles ...

15.01.2018

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