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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Carter Administration"”.
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Sowing the Seeds of Soviet Decline: Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Carter Administration: 1977-1981
… 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 as National Security …
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Neoliberal social policy in the United States before Reagan
… examines the role of trade agreements and the Carter administration in promoting neoliberal policy in the United States. Policy-planning groups, with extensive connections to the U.S. government and transnational corporations, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral …
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An Unlikely Champion: Congressman Mario Biaggi and the Beginnings of a Negotiated Settlement in Northern Ireland
… Congressman Mario Biaggi, D-NY, seized on Jimmy Carter's comments regarding human rights conditions in Northern Ireland. Biaggi, and several Irish/American groups, took these comments as an opening to challenge British policies in Northern Ireland. To aid this effort Biaggi in 1977 formed the Ad …
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Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
… absent. It stretches from the dying 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 …
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Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
… during the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. From taking power in April 1975 to their removal by the Vietnamese in January 1979, the Khmer Rouge initiated a revolution unrivalled in the 20th Century for its brutality and for the total eradication of modern society. This thesis …
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Who Is Our Master? -Debates during Civil Service Reforms-
… era, Jacksonian era, Republican era, and the Carter Administration. These eras were related to the four important civil service reform acts: the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Act of 1883, and the CSRA of 1978. Congressional debates recorded in Congressional Record were …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… The term détente was popularized by the Nixon administration, and specifically by National Security Advisor (and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger, in 1969.</p> <p>During the 1970s, the two superpowers sought to limit their nuclear arsenals through the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
<p>Samuel P. Huntington was one of the most influential political scientists of the 20th century, authoring a series of influential “concepts” and “paradigms” that have had tremendous impact on both scholarship and political practice. Historians have made great efforts to chart the anomalous, …