All of this comes down to us as what's called Wilsonian idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy Now!] Reference

But "Wilsonian" attitudes, self-righteous and messianic, do run throughout our history and do sometimes spill over into our foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Levine: When the Leaders Speak of Human Rights] Reference

What we call Wilsonian Principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2009] Reference

Wilsonian concepts into the Warren Harding and Calvin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truman Library - Truman and Hoover: Friends (Part I), by Donald R. McCoy] Reference

Hoover never lost his admiration for Wilsonian idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hoover and Truman - Introduction by Richard Norton Smith] Reference

He has wholeheartedly adopted George Bush's Wilsonian foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007] Reference

It was the militaristic Prussian idea against the American Wilsonian idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference

The reason we should care goes well beyond perpetuating Wilsonian principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama, the Neocons and Iran] Reference

After World War II, we dreamed again of a Wilsonian world based on the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776] Reference

World War II -- I can't say that Wilsonian ideals helped bring down the Nazi and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776] Reference

It's not that simple because we are driven by Wilsonian principles as well as others.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: South Carolina Republican Debate - February 15, 2000] Reference

Haiti could be seen as the nation where "Wilsonian democracy" met its most glaring hypocrisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: Media Coverage of Haitian Earthquake Can't Go There] Reference

Leninist communism became a major alternative to and competitor with Wilsonian liberal democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. Communism] Reference

What you will likely see from Obama will be very Wilsonian, very timely, and extremely successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krugman: Obama's Centrist Economic Appointments "Unavoidable"] Reference

In the Cold War, it's clear that Wilsonian ideals, whether it was -- they were spread by Radio Free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776] Reference

SHEPARD: Well, I mean, it was positively Wilsonian, and you know, make the world safe for democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2005] Reference

Wilsonian commitment and its basic decency - is being tested here, as well as its practical creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

All of these nationalist movements tended to express their goals in terms of Wilsonian liberal democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Nationalist Options] Reference

The Wilsonian tradition, emphasizing universal values, is an authentic expression of the American purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Bacevich: What Isolationism?] Reference

Autonomy represents a step toward Wilsonian principles of self-determination and the U.S. should support it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Independence the Best Course for Kosovo?] Reference

Chavez was a Wilsonian messiah who achieved a Nixonian dream: in a democracy, something close to absolute power.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Whom The Pots Clang] Reference

Former national-security adviser Anthony Lake, who now counsels Obama, calls himself a "pragmatic neo-Wilsonian.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Abroad] Reference

The American professor, from an Ivy League university, was still in the thrall of his Wilsonian "political science.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['The War That Never Ended'] Reference

They have a very strong belief that you should impose democracy in other parts of the world, which is very much a Wilsonian view.    From Wordnik.com.  [1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country�] Reference

In August, 1915, an incident occurred which set the contrast between the Rooseveltian and Wilsonian lines of thought in bold relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

The interests Obama's escalation are designed to protect are solely American ones -- this is no Wilsonian foreign policy at work here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leighton Woodhouse: Raping Afghanistan] Reference

As of today, it's hard to imagine a GOP presidential candidate in 2008 calling for an abandonment of the neocons 'neo-Wilsonian agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: What to Make of the 'New' Middle East] Reference

Nationalist ideologies in the first half of the 20th century tended to be based on the Wilsonian liberal democratic vision of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Nationalist Options] Reference

Today's president is waist deep in the problems of a Wilsonian (Woodrow, not James Q.) project of nation-building in a bad neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [SHOCK AND AWE IN IRAQ] Reference

Now what he was -- found so remarkable about the article is my ability to combine the best in Wilsonian idealism with historical realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power] Reference