Wednesday, March 2, 2011

The Betrayal of Great Expectations

59. According to the text's authors, the United States would have been well advised if they had forthrightly assumed its war-born responsibilities and had embraced the role of global leader proffered by the hand of destiny. The United States would have then been able to shape future events, but they instead permitted to drift toward a second world war.60. The three principles of Wilsonianism are the era of American isolation from world affairs has irretrievably ended, the US must infuse its own founding political and economic ideas (democracy, rule of law, trade, and self determination) into the international order, and American influence can eventually steer the world away from rivalry and warfare toward a cooperative and peaceful international system (UN).

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