Honor,Legalism and Universalism:American Political Elites'Three Concepts of League of Nations Around World War Ⅰ
Around World War Ⅰ,any plan of League of Nations could easily be attacked by its opponents as an"entangling alliance,"forming a political milieu unfavorable to American membership in this new international organization.Facing this cultural obstacle,three U.S.political leaders,Theodore Roosevelt,Taft and Wilson tried to shape the League with their own core values respectively,which could be named honor,legalism,and universalism.Resorting to these values,they could promote the merits of the League to the public and make the turn of U.S.diplomatic vision from isolation to international combination smoothly,without breaking the American taboo about"entangling alliance"violently.Nevertheless,not only isolationists were opposed to the League staunchly,but these values themselves were all powerful ideas balancing with,and even confronting with each other,forming something like a multipolar structure dominating American political culture during the League fight.In such context,the prospect of forming solid consensus on the League among American political elites became much dimmer.
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