Woodrow Wilson produced one the greatest changes in American strategic history: America would now go abroad to establish democratic governments. He was also America’s most interventionist president and commonly used American military power to force Latin American nations to behave as he thought they should. Wilson fought wars in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and two against Mexico, and sent troops into Cuba. He most famously took the US into the First World War because of German unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant shipping and the Zimmerman Telegram. Wilson sought a democratic German government and to create a stable peace, but he was reluctant to consider the aims of the other Allied coalition nations, Britain, France, and Italy. The US was unprepared to enter the First World War but built an enormous army under John J. Pershing that it deployed to France and used to help win the war in 1918. Wilson sought peace on the basis of his Fourteen Points. The Treaty of Versailles settled the war and established the League of Nations, but Wilson’s stubbornness prevented the treaty’s approval by the US Senate.

The interface between digitalized information (Data), intellectual property, privacy regulations, and competition law in the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) scenario is currently triggering the interest of politicians, businessmen, the academic community, and, even, the general public. The groups are interested for different reasons; for example, businessmen see an opportunity for the creation of wealth; researchers see the possibility of gaining, analyzing, and distributing knowledge efficiently; and everyone acknowledges that the collection and distribution of data may raise several concerns in reference to private and public power, freedom, privacy, and data protection concerns.

The Indo-Islamic world: What it is and how it came about, its geographical range and foundations, the origins and spread of agriculture and settled society, its world-historical context, the medieval centuries, and the transformations of the early modern centuries.