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Russia claims role of ideologist of new world order

The draft European security treaty proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev concerns not just Europe but all Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian countries from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

Russia has reminded the world about the idea of a united Europe "from Dublin to Vladivostok" and also claimed the role of the ideologist and senior architect of a new, safer and more open democratic world.

The 14-clause Kremlin project is a direct (or indirect) allusion to Woodrow Wilson"s Fourteen Points, a speech delivered to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918, in which the U.S. president put forth his vision of a post-war world that could avoid another terrible conflict.

However, international relations after Germany"s defeat in World War I are only vaguely reminiscent of Wilson"s idealistic view of the world. The League of Nations set up on the basis of his ideas failed to prevent the series

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