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Macalester College

2009

New world order

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New Rhetoric, Old Practices: Combining Old And New Diplomacy In 1919, Natasha M. Leyk Jan 2009

New Rhetoric, Old Practices: Combining Old And New Diplomacy In 1919, Natasha M. Leyk

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The idea of a "new world order" based on peace, justice and democracy is not unique to the post-Cold War era. President Woodrow Wilson utilized the same rhetoric when discussing the end of World War I and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Wilson's "new world order" provided a foundation to his conception of New Diplomacy. Yet 1919 was not the start of a "new world order" based on New Diplomacy. The Treaty of Versailles, negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference, became considered a harsh treaty that was not based on New Diplomacy. How did New Diplomacy fail in 1919, …