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

Liberal slogans promoting freedom and progress have 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 World War. The document differed from the spirit and principles of the peace accords concluded in the history of international relations. Previous peace agreements would normally enumerate the conditions...

15.01.2018

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Seven Debates over the Fourteen Points

... struggling to preserve the positions they had acquired in the international system. This general pattern needs to be elaborated with regard to 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 by a country on the rise. The United States took maximum advantage of the opportunities that came with American hegemony ...

15.01.2018

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