Wilsonian


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Wil•so•ni•an

(wɪlˈsoʊ ni ən)

adj.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Woodrow Wilson.
[1915–20, Amer.]
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Adj.1.Wilsonian - of or relating to or suggestive of Woodrow Wilson
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Unlike the peoples of Franco-British mandated Syria and Iraq, the Kurds had been granted a mandate-free Wilsonian right of 'self-determination'.
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The author's analysis is balanced in that he acknowledges the influence of both earlier presidents without glossing over differences, namely that FDR shied away from Theodore Roosevelt's global imperial ambitions prior to World War I and from wholesale Wilsonian idealism and collective security in the interwar period.
Next, he takes two long chapters to describe how the American concepts of world order developed, contrasting Wilsonian idealism to the pragmatism of Theodore Roosevelt.
Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism, by Elizabeth McKillen.