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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
METHODOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

“WOODROW WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS”

By:
Astrid Leony Longdong / 043 2010 0004
Dwi Setiawati Endi / 043 2010 0009
Candice Hermawan / 043 2010 0011
Mella Melia / 043 2010 0016

Lecturer: Indra V. A. Krishnamurti, S. Sos, M. Asian St.
Date/Day: Thursday, 27th September 2012

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
UNIVERSITAS PELITA HARAPAN
KARAWACI
2012
WOODROW WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS

28th President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, played a very dominant role in the end of World War I with his Fourteen Points, which also known as Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The Fourteen Points as set forth by Wilson can be seen as the following: 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.
The purpose is clearly to prohibit treaties, sections of treaties or understandings that are secret. It is proposed that in future every treaty be part of the public law of the world and that every nation assume a certain obligation in regard to its enforcement. Nations cannot assume obligations in matters of which they are ignorant; and therefore any secret treaty tends to undermine the solidity of the whole structure of international covenants which it is proposed to erect.

2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
It refers to navigation under the three following conditions: (1) general peace; (2) a general war, entered into by the League of Nations for the purpose of enforcing international covenants; (3) limited war, involving no breach of international covenants. Simply said, it is meant free navigation of all seas.


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