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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Afghan-War"”.
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Weaving Borders, Mapping Place: Afghan War Rugs of the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989)
Early Afghan war rugs delineate place through their pictorial design, embedding spatial memory into the tactile surface of the woven field. Emerging in the wake of the Soviet invasion in the late 1970s, these rugs integrate modern war iconography of tanks, helicopters, and maps into a medium …
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
… Gorbachev as a “bleeding wound,” the Soviet-Afghan War left a broad imprint on the domestic front during the Soviet Union’s transition from stagnation to dissolution. From the onset of war on 25 December 1979 to the 40th Army’s withdrawal on 15 February 1989, most Soviet officials spoke only …
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Reading between the lines, 1839-1939 : popular narratives of the Afghan frontier
… Elphinstone and WaIter Scott, created an 'Afghanistan of the mind' over a century of British engagement. Using the quantitative methodologies of book history, my thesis sheds light on the public responses to three successive Anglo-Afghan wars, and the reception of the writings to which …
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Understanding the Afghan Diaspora: Exploring the Factors Driving Migration and the Impact of Migration Policies on Recent Afghan Evacuees Resettling in the United States
<p>Afghanistan has been at war with the West since the late 1900’s, remaining in a state of constant turmoil. During the Cold War (1979), Afghanistan had fought a war with the Soviet Union, known as the Soviet- Afghan War. During this time, Afghanistan was invaded by both the Soviet and US, …
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"Excellent Propaganda" Zbigniew Brzezinski's Narrative for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
<p>My focus is Cold War, and my thesis is about Zbigniew Brzezinski's larger geopolitical vision and objectivesforthePersian Gulf region, including how he used the Afghan war to pursue those objectives, and how important his willful misunderstanding of Soviet intentions in Afghanistan was to the …
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Folkloric Flux
… psychological trauma in relation to the US-Afghan war, 2) Jack and the Beanstalk to warn of hubristic technological advancement in modern industrial agriculture; 3) The Three Little Pigs to depict socioeconomic dimensions of the 2007-08 housing crisis; and 4) The Adventures of Pinocchio to …
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The status in international law of Guantanamo Detainees
… Humanitarian Law, persons captured in war do not lose their rights to be treated as human beings. Indeed, humanitarian law as well as human rights law ordain that such persons must be treated humanely. Following the war in Afghanistan of October, 2001, the Americans captured a number of …
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Sowing the Seeds of Soviet Decline: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Administration: 1977-1981
… in which he served helped to end the Cold War. It examines Brzezinski’s career prior to the Carter years and looks at the formation of his strategy for dismantling the Soviet bloc. It then examines his role as National Security Adviser from 1977 to 1981 and how he implemented the ideas he …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… and external pressures Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) experienced prior to their defection and while in captivity. I discuss several driving factors, such as Soviet propaganda tactics, pre-deployment military training, quality of life in Afghanistan, human rights violations, ethnic conflicts …
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Explaining the U.S Failure in Afghanistan
… of the trajectory of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan spanning multiple administrations from Obama to Biden, contextualizing it within broader shifts in American interventionism since the Cold War. An examination of the Obama, Trump, and Biden eras, delineates the complexities of military …