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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Anti-American"”.
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O antiamericanismo e a política externa do governo Lula (2003-2010)
… foreign policy of the Lula government possessed "anti- American" elements. In order to check this hypothesis, this report seeks to define the meaning of the concept of anti-Americanism; to draw a historical line in which this type of argument (contraposition between positions "pro-American" and …
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O antiamericanismo e a política externa do governo Lula (2003-2010)
… foreign policy of the Lula government possessed "anti-American" elements. In order to check this hypothesis, this report seeks to define the meaning of the concept of anti-Americanism; to draw a historical line in which this type of argument (contraposition between positions "pro-American" and …
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Old Europe versus New Europe: cultural similarity tolerance, religion and anti-Americanism in a divided European Union
This research focuses on anti-Americanism in Europe. Old Europe, including countries like France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, is significantly more anti-American than New Europe, which includes countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary. In this project, …
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Hezbollah and Hugo Chavez: Radical Islam's Western Foothold
… respective positions as leaders of the global anti-American movement and has provided a platform from which Hezbollah and its Iranian patron have extended their global outreach. This paper seeks to examine this mutually-beneficial arrangement, and attempts to explain the risks and threats …
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Anti-Americanism, World Politics, and German-U.S. Relations
… and Robert O. Keohane's theoretical framework of anti-Americanism to examine German perceptions of U.S. foreign policy. Katzenstein and Keohane distinguish four distinctive types of anti-Americanism. Liberal anti-Americanism is a reaction to unpopular U.S. foreign policies. Social anti-Americanism …
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Does Health Anxiety Moderate the Effects of Mortality Salience On Worldview Defense?
… measured by participants' reactions to pro- vs. anti-American essays. The results were analyzed using a regression model, with IAS scores standardized and treated as a continuous measure. As predicted, there was a significant IAS x Condition interaction, !(64) = 2.09, p < .05. However, the …
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Al-Qa'Ida and the United States 1979-2001: Lessons Learned
… to continually strike U.S. targets and espouse anti-American propaganda with little retaliation by the United States prior to 11 September 2001. It is this author’s contention that through this examination of al-Qa’ida, tools for generating future strategies against contemporary terrorist …
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Famine and the politics of food relief in United States relations with Ethiopia : 1950-1991
… human rights had become the prerequisites for American agricultural aid. The dissertation challenges the argument that the Revolutionary Government deliberately created famine to embark on a well-defined program of genocide against its ethnic and political foes. It provides an alternative view …
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Replacing Periods With Question Marks: A Study of the Role of Public Education in Kanawha County, West Virginia
… opposition perceived the texts as overly sexual, anti-American, and intrusive while supporters celebrated the diversification of narratives and information. The ability of newly adopted language arts textbooks to spark an explosive controversy reflects the impact of textbooks and, more broadly, …
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From empire to hegemony : the dynamics of U.S. relations with Cuba and Mexico, 1930-1940
… with Latin America in response to domestic American pressure and anti-American resentment in the region. The U.S. government ended its policy of political interference and armed intervention in the internal affairs of both Cuba and Mexico, but wanted to retain its large economic and …
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Varieties of base contestation: anti-U.S. base protests in South Korea and Japan
Why do some American military bases become a lightning rod for protests in overseas host communities, while others hardly make headlines? While some American bases seem to be embraced by most local residents, others are a magnet for anti-American sentiments, even as they produce negative and …
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The Price of Dissent: Freedom of Speech and Arkansas Criminal Anarchy Arrests
… laws. Since a majority of those accused of anti-American activities were involved in labor disputes, Arkansas makes for an interesting case study; not only did it have a relative lack of labor disputes, it still passed anti-Bolshevik laws. The purpose of this research is to develop an …
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Raqs Sharqi in Cultural Diplomacy; An Important but Neglected Diplomatic Tool in U.S.-Egypt Diplomatic Relations “Soft Power is a dance that requires partners.
… plunged, especially in the Arab world, where anti-Americanism has been on the rise. America’s hard power alone can no longer efficiently boost America’s reputation and the U.S. government has abandoned its soft power resources. Although important, the linchpin of public diplomacy, known as …
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The origins of American history in the early modern English Atlantic world
… and manuscript sources, it argues that writing American history allowed English writers to navigate, negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing Atlantic empire. In doing so, the English created a vision of America to compete with the dominant Spanish narrative by the end of the seventeenth …
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Politics of Iran-West relations within the contextof Iranian occidentalism; image of the west in theIranian press during reformism (1997-2001) and conservatism (2005-2009)
… of view and the role of the media in creating anti-American and anti-Western sentiments amongst the Iranians. It studies how Occidentalism has evolved in Iran and how, as an ideological representation, it has influenced the press portrayal of the West in the country. It also identifies dominant …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
… Internet in public opinion building, the rise in anti-American sentiment in South Korea, and rhetorical agency residing in the collective. In 2002, two South Korean schoolgirls walking along a rural road near Seoul were hit and killed by a U.S. military vehicle. The country's Internet users …
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Images of Americans: The United States in Canadian newspapers during the 1960s
This thesis analyses Canadian newspaper images of Americans during the 1960s. The content of the study is derived from twenty newspapers drawn from four Canadian cities---Halifax, Quebec City, Ottawa, and Vancouver---and covers five specific events during the 1960s which each prompted a flurry of …
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Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, 1946-1962
… people. Drawing methodological insight from American pragmatist philosophy and social science, the group conducted statistical surveys and interviews, and produced content analyses of popular movies, novels, and comic books in an unusual experiment to probe the mind of the "common man." In …
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The media in transition: The rise of an "independent" press in Post-Invasion Iraq and the American role in shaping the Iraqi press 2003 - 2005
… 2003. In particular, it attempts to disclose American interventions in the work of the Iraqi press in the period 2003-2006. It examines three main aspects of these interventions, as briefly summarized below: press legislation; planning and construction of new press entities; and attempts to …