Jamaica Woodrow Smith

Your own Woodrow Wilson said you gotta make the country safe for democracy.

Is this an ideal that we should take seriously? Is Wikileaks founder Julian Assange a true follower of Woodrow Wilson?

Moreover, much depends on external conditions. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman developed transformational objectives only in response to external events after they entered office.

Workstations for accessing the Official Document System (ODS), the Internet and electronic information resources are available in the Woodrow Wilson Reading Room (room L 201) and in room L 105.

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Whatever the outcome in Tunisia, those who believe that democracy, to paraphrase Woodrow Wilson, makes the world a safe place and that more democracy makes it safer have every reason to rejoice at such an auspicious development.

The second informal intersessional meeting of the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression was held from 13 to 15 June 2005 at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, United States of America.15

Historians can make a credible case that periods of maximalist over commitment have done more damage to America s place in the world than periods of retrenchment. Domestic political reaction to Woodrow Wilson s global idealism produced the intense isolationism that delayed America s response to Hitler.

Openness is in this respect like pacifism just as we cannot embrace complete disarmament while others stand ready to use their weapons, so Woodrow Wilson s world of open diplomacy is a noble ideal that cannot be fully realized in the world in which we live.

It goes back a century, to President Woodrow Wilson s inability in 1919 to persuade a myopically isolationist Congress to approve the League of Nations. Since then, Congress has rejected the International Trade Organization (1948), the SALT II nuclear agreement (1979), and the Kyoto Protocol (1997), among others.

One American politician who understands how to work with the Iranian power structure is former Congressman Lee Hamilton, now head of the Woodrow Wilson Center. When Wilson Center researcher Haleh Esfandiari was arrested in Iran, Hamilton wrote to Khamenei, pleading for her release on humanitarian grounds.

In his 2000 presidential bid, George W. Bush famously promised compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy, but governed very differently, as when he decided to invade Iraq. Likewise, Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson campaigned on promises of peace, but each took America to war shortly after being elected.

In 2001, George W. Bush started his first term with little interest in foreign policy, but adopted transformational objectives after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman before him, Bush turned to the rhetoric of democracy to rally his followers in a time of crisis.

The world has seen such a synthesis before. When, after the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the advent of the so called New Diplomacy, whereby secrecy and the balance of power would be replaced by open covenants and collective security, many people regarded such things as the dreams of an idealist preacher.

International relations theorists since Immanuel Kant have held that democracies rarely (if ever) fight one another as a result, political leaders, such as US President Woodrow Wilson, have tried to promote democracy as a means to spread peace. Until recently, the US seemed to have assumed that China s engagement with Western democracies would bolster peaceful ties.

In 2005, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies looked closely at government funded research addressing the environmental, health, and safety impact of nanotechnology. Investment in highly relevant research was low in the United States, it was only an estimated 1 of the 1.1 billion federal investment in nanotechnology research and development.

PRINCETON At Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the university before he became president of the United States, is never far away. His larger than life image looks out across the dining hall at Wilson College, where I am a fellow, and Prospect House, the dining facility for academic staff, was his family home when he led the university.

The third liberal route to peace institutionalizing international relations aims to regularize the behavior of states through a system of norms and rules, thereby creating order (and peace) out of quasi anarchy. Such thinking motivated US President Woodrow Wilson s desire to establish the League of Nations after World War I, and it also underlay President Franklin Roosevelt s push to create the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions after World War II.