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Answer for the clue "The doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences ", 16 letters:
internationalism

Word definitions for internationalism in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics , an internationalism or international word is a loanword that occurs in several languages (that is, translingually ) with the same or at least similar meaning and etymology. These words exist in "several different languages as a result of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Internationalism \In`ter*na"tion*al*ism\, n. The state or principles of international interests and intercourse. The doctrines or organization of the International.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. political, economic and cultural cooperation between nations

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A new internationalism had been born in football. ▪ In proposing a rupture between liberal internationalism and nationalist socialism, Hyndman and Blatchford were ahead of their time. ▪ So there is more on internationalism , ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, from international + -ism .

Usage examples of internationalism.

For tactical reasons having to do with the nonsectarian appeal he was aiming at, Howe never said in so many words that to him the perspective demanding loyalty from the intellectuals was not internationalism in general but socialism in particular.

On the one side science, order, progress, internationalism, aeroplanes, steel, concrete, hygiene: on the other side war, nationalism, religion, monarchy, peasants, Greek professors, poets, horses.

His hagiographers today present him as the plucky, courageous, little guy who stood up to world communism and led America into a new age of cosmopolitan internationalism.

They think of internationalism with greedy Great Powers in the background outside the internationalized area, intriguing to create disorder and mischief with ideas of an ultimate annexation.