... next war.
This cycle had perpetuated in Europe for centuries. Any peace treaty, and the very paradigm of diplomacy, implied 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 an end to war as a phenom-enon, making it impossible. The most important principles were: abandoning secret diplomacy; reducing ...
... Wilson’s hopes for the unconditional supremacy of legal norms in global politics are still far from being implemented in practice.
Wilsonianism: the Ideology of the “Golden Billion”?
Ilya Ivanov:
Are Norms Liberal?
The principles of openness and universalism are the most important basis of the Fourteen Points and all subsequent projects of the liberal world order. Wilson’s political philosophy was unequivocally and ... ... and his successors are seen as supporters of global unification and enemies of individuality and group identity.
Are these accusations justified? The conflict between universalism and individuality is unsubstantiated if universalism is understood as a ...