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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Brzezinski"”.
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Sowing the Seeds of Soviet Decline: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Administration: 1977-1981
… endeavours to demonstrate that Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter administration 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 …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
… Harvard colleagues Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski, yet Huntington has not yet received an attempt at intellectual biography, a project necessary to understand this cohort best understood as “a trio” of grand strategists. Relying on newly available archival materials, this dissertation …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… days of the Carter administration when Zbigniew Brzezinski saw the ‘opportunity’ presented by the invasion to the Soviet’s withdrawal in 1989. The aim of these information strategies was to damage Soviet credibility and enhance that of the US, considered under threat from growing ‘moral …
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The Dynamics of Eurasian Comprehensive Security, Political and Economic Cooperation
… and trans-Eurasian security system” applied by Brzezinski, Z. (Brzezinski, Z., 1997) between Eurasia and Europe, on the one hand, and Eurasian powers and the US, on the other. I made the argumentation that the Eurasian continent is divided between several nations and sovereign countries in three …
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Engineering and characterizing light-matter interactions in photonic crystals
Photonic crystals can affect the behavior of visible light, and other electromagnetic waves, in ways that are not possible by other means. The propagation of photons can be completely forbidden or the the light can be made to follow a well- defined path. Fluorescent emission can be enhanced for …
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Scheduling algorithms for throughput maximization in data networks
This thesis considers the performance implications of throughput optimal scheduling in physically and computationally constrained data networks. We study optical networks, packet switches, and wireless networks, each of which has an assortment of features and constraints that challenge the design …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… as his national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and his Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance, frequently clashed on how best to handle the issue. Carter’s inexperience in politics on the national stage arguably exacerbated tensions between himself, his cabinet members, and the Senate …
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Gender differences in bullying and perceptions of bullying
<p>Bullying is a prevalent and ongoing problem in all schools from elementary school on through college. Previous research has shown that rates of bullying have been on the rise in recent years. High rates of bullying should not be ignored as involvement in bullying can lead to long-lasting, …
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The Catholic Church and Political Development in Colombia
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7411959.pdf: 11112889 bytes, checksum: 000d8c26a3b51074eea8d14ca6a10397 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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StarVis : a configural decision support tool for schedule management of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become increasingly autonomous, current single-UAV operations involving multiple personnel could transition to a single operator simultaneously supervising multiple UAVs in high-level control tasks. These time-critical, single-operator systems will require advance …
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A configuração das identidades profissionais dos (as) pedagogos (as) de Institutos Federais Mineiros: da formação à atuação profissional
… Foi necessária também a leitura de autores como Brzezinski (1996; 2011), Silva (1999), Libâneo (2005, 2006 e 2007), Aguiar e Melo (2005), Pimenta (2006), Aguiar et. al. (2006), Saviani (2004; 2009), Franco, Libâneo e Pimenta (2007), Kuenzer e Rodrigues (2006; 2007) e Leal (2013) para entender, …
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"Excellent Propaganda" Zbigniew Brzezinski's Narrative for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
… 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 legacy of …