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Wilsonismul și eșecul realismului
Wilsonianism and the failure of realism

Author(s): Petre Silviu
Subject(s): Political Sciences, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Editura Militară
Keywords: Wilsonianism; failure; realism;

Summary/Abstract: The author shows the main direction of the US foreign policy and explains the role and activities of US president, Woodrow Wilson is reshaping a better world after World War I. He considers Wilson as being as pragmatic as he was idealist and explains his main ideas concerning the international peace, the self-determination of the oppressed people and the democratization of states. In the end, he think that pure realism is not a good option because it favors a fixed, non-progressive world, but, on the other side, exacerbated idealism is also useless and tiring. The best solution is a mixture of both, and this is the intellectual inheritance of the Wilsonism.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 121-126
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian