But the old Wilsonian notion of a governing world body has been laid to rest.

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Roosevelt and Harry Truman attempted to craft a new "community of power" based upon Wilsonian principles.

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It's a system designed to protect the rights of states to Wilsonian "self determination, " not to subject them to the will of the strongest.

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Wilsonian in its view of the universal nature of the human impulse to freedom, neoconservatives in recent years have wholeheartedly embraced the notion that if given a chance to make their sentiments known, most people will choose liberal democracy over any other form of government.

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