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...contrast, Paarlberg labeled the Democratic nominee Barack Obama a “Wilsonian internationalist” who is “by instinct, a skeptic about past performance of United States foreign policy.” He said the Illinois senator seems most comfortable employing American military power for humanitarian purposes...
...Traub’s book makes it seem like little more than an anti-Bush diatribe, his attack is not a partisan one. While Traub believes Bush’s “Freedom Agenda” to be both naïve and dangerous, he also affirms the Wilsonian ideals that inspired the President. Traub clearly believes that it is important for democracy to spread; it is a matter of methods rather than philosophy that places him against Bush. According to Traub, the strain that Bush was put under in the wake of 9/11 caused him to make foolhardy...
...That basketball has become a reflection of the country's disunity is one of Lebanon's sad ironies: The sport was brought here by American missionaries and educators in the early 20th century as part of a Wilsonian nation-building project among the colonized peoples of the Middle East. The hope may have been that sports could help foster the values of a civil society that erased boundaries between Christians and Muslims, East and West, but that never happened. "In Lebanon, we never have progress," said Ellie Fawaz, a legendary Lebanese player who himself was taught basketball by an American...
...Rudd is more of a multilateralist than Howard was, and will be "much more engaged with the U.N.," says William Tow, professor of international relations at the Australian National University. "He has a real commitment to Wilsonian principles. He will make values, as well as national interests, a matter of foreign policy. He'll emphasize dialogue and diplomacy...
...current Bush Administration did the reverse in 2003 by using realist rhetoric about security interests (remember those WMD?) to cloak what was, more broadly, a neo-Wilsonian mission of spreading democracy. The two primary realists in the Bush court, Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft, were the most prominent castoffs by the end of the first term. And Condoleezza Rice, for years a sophisticated realist thinker in the mold of her mentor Scowcroft, underwent a post-9/11 conversion to the belief that there was no longer a useful distinction between democracy-crusading idealism and national-security realism...