Browsing by Subject "Cold War"
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(2011-05-05)In the post 9/11 world of American Foreign Policy, where interdependence and globalization are variables that influence every aspect of world affairs, what should the priorities of the United States be and what instruments ...
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(2017-01-17)The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ long history in China before World War II was a prelude to a little known struggle. In the aftermath of Japan’s surrender in August 1945, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps embarked on a complex ...
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(2012-02-14)At the start of the George H.W. Bush administration, American involvement in El Salvador‘s civil war, one of the last Cold War battlegrounds, had disappeared from the foreign policy agenda. However, two events in November ...
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(2013-03-21)Purpose: This work examines the transition in aerial warfare that took place during the Korean War (1950-1953). Before the conflict, air power was conceived of primarily an instrument of unlimited, or total, warfare. ...
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(2012-10-19)During the 1960's Guatemalan stability began to falter due to a political and social breakdown; guerilla violence and government repression emerged from this decade as common occurrences. In response to the instability ...
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(2020-07-16)The dissertation process began with the goal of answering two primary questions and determining the methodology to employ. The first question was if there was a single model for explaining the success or failure of the ...
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(2022-07-22)This dissertation recontextualizes the meaning of confession and its relation to the public and publicity by exploring postwar American poets Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), Anne Sexton, (1928–1974), and Frank O’Hara ...
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(2008-05-16)The end of the Cold War and the opening of selected archives in both Eastern and Western Europe provides scholars the opportunity to study this period with greater accuracy and detail than was previously possible. This ...
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(1984)The development of U.S. foreign policy doctrine is a very complex and highly dynamic process. The Department of State is an integral part of these proceedings. Considered to be the experts in international affairs, it is ...
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(2020-11-13)One common complaint about the United States Air Force is its overreliance on strategic bombing theory. This dissertation examines that complaint by expounding on the intellectual community within the officer corps during ...
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(2011-10-21)Constitutive rhetoric theory posits that community identity is rhetorically created. There are various approaches to constitutive rhetoric, though most rhetoricians have chosen to focus on the works of Maurice Charland ...
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(2012-02-14)This study examines the relationship between British and American officials and the fifty-five Wehrmacht general officers who were held as prisoners of war in the United States during World War II. This relationship ...
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The rhetoric of presidential summit diplomacy: Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Soviet summits, 1985-1988 (2009-05-15)President Ronald Reagan participated in more U.S.-Soviet summits than any previous U.S. president, as he met with his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, on four occasions between November 1985 and June 1988. Prior to, ...
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(1977)"Should American Foreign Policy be Moralistic?" is an inquiry into one of the many controversies surrounding United States foreign policy. Mr. Keeney traces the development of moralistic undercurrents in our foreign policy ...
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(2015-07-22)In the years following WWII, the West German peace movement emerged from its dormancy, developed into a popular movement, rose to challenge the policy of the government, and changed the character of West German society. ...
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(2021-04-26)The Space Crusade explores a unique relationship between scientific and evangelical history. The twentieth-century crusades stem from fundamentalist movements in Christian America led by prominent evangelical figures such ...
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This work is a creative thesis and focuses primarily on the reactions people have when in times of crisis, as well as introspection on whether or not it would be the moral decision to change things in the past, if it were ...
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(2012-02-14)This thesis examines the American Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) sent to French Indochina, from 1950 to 1956, when the United States provided major monetary and material aid to the French in their war against ...