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...Margaret MacMillan documents in her new history, Paris 1919, Wilson's commitments to self-determination, democracy and nation building (although the phrase was not then in vogue) were frequently frustrated at the peace conference by Europeans interested mainly in land grabs. After he returned from Paris, writes Michael Mandelbaum in his recent book, The Ideas That Conquered the World, Wilson's negotiations with those Senators who thought that membership in the League of Nations would endanger American independence were "a masterpiece of political incompetence." Among the more hard-nosed realist practitioners of American statecraft--the sort of folk who have...
...around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'" But Sept. 11 changed everything. The attacks on that day underscored how some nations had resisted the seductive call of peace, democracy and freedom--and that we had paid for the resistance. The Administration, says Mandelbaum, "has decided that the cause of Sept. 11 lies in the failure of our ideals to take root in the Arab world...
...factor, surely, was a clarity of vision. In Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, the most popular Western politicians were those like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who didn't pussyfoot around but called the communist tyranny what it was. Michael Mandelbaum, author of a new book The Ideas That Conquered the World, argues, however, that Reagan's importance to the transformation of Europe came less from what he said than from what he stood for--the West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they...
...factor, surely, was a clarity of vision. In Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, the most popular Western politicians were those like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who didn't pussyfoot around but called the communist tyranny what it was. Michael Mandelbaum, author of a new book The Ideas That Conquered the World, argues, however, that Reagan's importance to the transformation of Europe came less from what he said than from what he stood for - the West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they...
...Jane Pavese is the answer to my dreams,"Mandelbaum says. "I said, `I want to go to Cuba,'and she looked at me and she helped...