UNITED STATES: 'Wilsonianism' drives US policy abroad

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  • Deep foreign policy divide?
  • The Wilsonian consensus
  • The Wilsonian creed
  • New global role
  • Wilson's view of history
  • Victorian 'historicists'
  • Marxists
  • Rise and collapse
  • Re-emergence and growth
  • Neo-con/liberal internationalist schism
  • Wilsonian hybrids
  • Competing 'realist' framework
  • Origins
  • Modern realism
  • Realist view of history
  • Realism in US policy
  • Wilsonianism versus realism
  • Dangers of Wilsonian consensus
  • Unchallenged assumptions
  • Unpleasant democratic 'surprises'
  • Susceptibility to manipulation
  • Knowledge shortfalls obscured

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