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Wilsonian Idealism and Japanese Claims at the Paris Peace Conference
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This article explored further possible explanations of Wilson's failure to fend off the Japanese challenge to the principles of Wilsonian internationalism as set forth in his Fourteen Points, arguing that Japanese-American differences were more than either simple disagreements over diplomatic principles or particular disputes over economic, territorial, or political concessions.Abstract:
the "Old Diplomacy," practiced by imperialists of the Old World, and the "New Diplomacy," advocated by idealistic internationalists under the leadership of President Woodrow Wilson.' This dichotomy, however, does not fully explain the antagonism between Japan and the United States at the end of World War I. This study explores further possible explanations of President Wilson's failure to fend off the Japanese challenge to the principles of Wilsonian internationalism as set forth in his Fourteen Points. It argues that Japanese-American differences were more than either simple disagreements over diplomatic principles or particular disputes over economic, territorial, or political concessions. Hidden behind the conflict was another dichotomy-between America's universalism and unilateralism, on the one hand, and, on the other, an incipient particularistic regionalism and pluralism derived from Japanese leaders' assessment ofread more
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The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848–1947
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John Bassett Moore, Robert Lansing, and the Shandong Question
TL;DR: In the early twentieth century, two famous American international lawyers had a China connection that was either unknown or has long since been forgotten by scholars as mentioned in this paper, and one of those lawyers was John Bassett Moore, who was an adviser to the Chinese legation in the United States as well as to Chinese delegates to the Paris Peace Conference and the League of Nations.