Wilsonian

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• Reagan's resuscitation of a Wilsonian internationalist grand design—a world of free, democratic, and thus peaceful states—achieved substantial domestic legitimacy.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Republican foreign policy over the past decade has been Wilsonian progressive liberalism.

  Blog text (4)

• So to break up the Federal Reserve System into these district banks, that's very much a Wilsonian approach.

• Perhaps because they regard America's Wilsonian aspirations for democracy and human rights as the greatest threat to their very existence and way of life.

  Academic text (2003)

• Before World War II, even the United States entertained the Wilsonian possibility of a multipolar world structure.

  Academic text (2003)

• As Gaddis and others have noted, this is a Wilsonian vision of breathtaking scope.

  Academic text (2003)

• In doing so, he distilled the essence of Wilsonian progressivism.

  Academic text (2013)

• The horror and revulsion over Vietnam had led the Wilsonian liberals to an almost categorical opposition to American intervention abroad.

  Academic text (1993)

• The centrist, conservative internationalists argued that the Clinton administration, despite its cloak of Wilsonian rhetoric, was actually isolationist in its desire to betray the responsibility for a militarily strong, politically and economically engaged, but independent U.S. world.

  Academic text (1999)

• New strategies perforce adapt elements of their predecessors, as Franklin Roosevelt adapted Wilsonian ideals to sell his foreign policy to liberal constituents and to ensure that even a stable balance of power would gradually ameliorate the bloody rivalries of "old Europe."

  Academic text (2003)

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