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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cold War Politics"”.
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Romance, revolution and regulation: colonialism and the US-Mexico border in American Cold War film.
… place in the 1950s, these films engage with cold war politics as they explore the relationship between the United States and Mexico through ideas of romance, revolution and regulation. The thesis contributes to the growing field of cultural studies of the Cold War by contending that these …
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The long-delayed repatriation of the Sakhalin Koreans: Cold war challenges and resolutions, 1945-1992
During World War II (WWII), tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly mobilized to Karafuto (southern Sakhalin Island) to serve as labourers in Japan’s wartime economy. When the war ended in August 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the region and the Koreans ceased to be Japanese colonial subjects. …
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The Caspian Sea Competition
… Sea basin is becoming a central issue of post-Cold War politics. Situated at the strategic crossroads of Europe and Asia, the Caspian Sea is an area of geopolotical importance. Complicated political issues, including ongoing territorial and ethnic conflicts, as well as competition for resource …
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Britain and the atomic bomb: MAUD to Nagasaki.
… nuclear programme and its effect on British Cold War politics with America and the U.S.S.R. The fusion, or hydrogen, bomb is mentioned briefly and an overall assessment of the achievements of the British scientists is included.
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The Carmen-Suite: Maya Plisetskaya Challenging Soviet Culture and Policy
… as a proxy for insight into the undercurrents of Cold War and post-Cold War politics in the USSR and post-Soviet Russia. The evolution of Carmen-Suite from a symbol of protest to an integral part of the established cultural system illustrates both political protest on the part of its creators and …
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Reagan, Central America and the Human Costs to Waging the Cold War
… the Reagan Administration's re-ignition of Cold War politics based on realist international relations theory This particular foreign policy blueprint is based on one geo-political thought: Communist Rollback. Due to this, other concerns, such as human rights, were relegated to a lesser …
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Choices to Save the Suffering: What Prompts Humanitarian Military Intervention
… a more frequent activity of states in the post-Cold War era. New notions that intervening militarily to alleviate human suffering is legitimate have challenged traditional views of state sovereignty and non-intervention. What prompts states to risk lives and resources by intervening in civil …
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Memory and postmemory in the writing of North American writers of Lithuanian descent /
… (2015) by Rita Gabis, and Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (2017) by Julija Šukys. In their memoirs, these writers reflect on and challenge aspects of Lithuanian historical trauma (the Holocaust) and Lithuanian cultural trauma (deportations to Siberia, World War II, the …
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Atmintis ir postatmintis Šiaurės Amerikos lietuvių kilmės rašytojų literatūroje /
… (2015) by Rita Gabis, and Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning (2017) by Julija Šukys. In their memoirs, these writers reflect on and challenge aspects of Lithuanian historical trauma (the Holocaust) and Lithuanian cultural trauma (deportations to Siberia, World War II, the …
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Netizenship Politics: Youth, Anti-Americanism, and Rhetorical Agency in South Korea's 2002 Candlelight Vigils
… Korean younger generation produced a critique of Cold War politics remaining in South Korea and developed a distinct generational and political identity. I study arguments, styles, and underlying national imaginaries of relevant Internet discourse. The chapters in this study are organized …
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My name is Afrika: Setswana genealogies, trans-atlantic interlocutions, and NOW-time in Keorapetse Kgositsile's life and work
… America, anti-apartheid movements, anti-colonial wars in Africa, anti-imperialism in Asia, cold war politics, and the eventual demise of both the Berlin wall and the apartheid regime in South Africa. His poetry responds to these times in illuminating ways. His poetic influences point to his …
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PAP Singapore : a case study of stationary bandit in a market economy
… polity, given the pervasive influence of politics in policy decisions. This study therefore synthesizes a new analytical methodology, drawn from neo-institutionalism, to analyse the interrelations of state, market and social institutions in the Singapore of the People s Action Party (PAP). …
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Exchanging faces: Dubbing foreign films in China, 1949-1994
… “window to the outside world” during the Cold War era. Between 1949 and 1994, when Hollywood’s path to China was blocked by Cold War politics, the Chinese Communist Party dubbed and screened over one thousand films from the Soviet bloc, Western Europe, and beyond. These foreign films made …
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Towards a local community: colonial politics and postwar Hong Kong cinema
… to shed new light on our understanding of postwar Hong Kong and the colonial history of community building. The 1950s and 1960s was a period of social turmoil and enormous uncertainty for the colony; it is however, also a period little understood in relation to Hong Kong’s development from a …
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Child's Play: Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Clinic
… for August Aichhorn’s forthcoming book, Wayward Youth. There, Freud hailed ‘the child’ as the future of psychoanalysis, declaring that “[o]f all the fields in which psychoanalysis has been applied none has aroused so much interest… as the theory and practice of child training. …The child has …