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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Hearts and Minds"”.
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The role of framing in counterinsurgency/counterterrorism operations the status of hearts and minds
… public. Framing offers insights into terrorist and insurgent operations that are only recently being addressed but still not widely capitalized on by current U.S. Army operations in Iraq. My focus is on the role of framing in the U.S. counterterrorism effort, and I will demonstrate how insurgent …
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Hearts and minds : how do people experience and psychologically recover from traumatic cardiac treatment-related events?
… cardiac treatments: heart transplantation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). It was hoped that such an endeavour would yield novel insights into these treatments that might facilitate the development of pertinent theory and psychotherapeutic approaches designed to alleviate …
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Hearts and Minds: Investigating the Effects of Country of Origin on Consumer Response to an International Service Crisis
This research advances our theoretical understanding of COO effects, and more specifically their cognitive and emotional/affective influences, in an international services organisation crisis context. This is achieved via decomposing the COO construct into cognitive and affective (positive and …
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Hearts and Minds: US Foreign Policy and Anti-Americanism in the Middle EastAn Analysis of Public Perceptions from 2002-2011
… a strong relationship between US foreign policy and public attitudes of the United States in the region. This study analyzes Middle Eastern public opinion of the United States from 2002 until 2011, while using quantitative and qualitative analysis to determine whether US foreign policy in the …
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Winning the hearts and minds of the Chinese people : a study of Japanese, American, Kuomintang and Communist propaganda, 1937-1945
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1992.
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"With this belt [we] bind your Hearts and minds with ours": Diplomacy and Conflict in the Ohio River Valley, 1783-1793
… Old Northwest became a hotly contested borderland. The United States and Great Britain both laid claim to a series of posts in the region. Historical work done in this arena has tended to favor a nationalist narrative--that is to say, the perspective has been decidedly British or American. What …
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Using "Ag-Gag" Outrage and Corporate Rebranding to Achieve a Public Image Makeover for the Animal Rights Movement
… to effective campaigning by opposing lobbies and corporate entities and in part to self-inflicted damage from failed messaging and tactics. The perceived alignment of animal rights advocacy organizations with extremism and the public distrust of activists leaves the movement in need of a …
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The Specter of Liberal Benevolence: Power, Podcasts, and Perpetual Peace
This thesis attempts to understand how American hegemony is reproduced. Despite heavily criticizing American military expansion, the foreign policy elite still abet the expansion of the American military apparatus. I argue that international liberalism is used to capture the hearts and minds of the …
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The nexus between soft power and US foreign aid
… relationship between US bilateral development and military aid allocations and like-minded states from 1981 to 2011. Accordingly, US soft power attracts like-minded states primarily through its culture as well as emphasis on human rights and democracy. I find that like-minded states receive …
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China's Education Reforms: Strategic Implications
… has significantly increased its investments in, and output from, its institutions of higher education over the last two decades. This has been the product of deliberate policy on the part of the Chinese government. These reforms will affect four strategic aspects of China's national power: its …
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"Quality" control in China's reform era : investigating the suzhi discourse in women's work
… concerning "population quality." Claims and accusations of 'low quality' are particularly targeted at rural migrant women who have been migrating to Chinese cities at an increasing rate. This investigation attempts to delineate to what extent this is a story of complete domination of the …
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Exporting America: The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction
… Germany immediately after the Second World War, and their role in securing the support of West German elites for American occupation policies, particularly democratic self-government. Located at the intersection of culture, economics, and American politics, the America Houses (Amerikahäuser) …
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Media consumption, identity and the Pakistani diaspora
… seeks to address the issue of media consumption and the formation of diaspora identity within second and third generation British-born residents of Pakistani origin. In recent years there has been much debate centred on this group within the context of domestic and wider international geopolitics …
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Gun Ownership Trends In The United States, 1973-2000
… arms was written into the U. S. Constitution and into the hearts and minds of its citizens. During the last half century, however, numerous gun control laws have been enacted at Federal, state and local levels, and it can be argued (plausibly or not) that part of the legislative intent has …
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
… were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite the considerable financial systemic pressure of profit in the slave trade, it caused significant harm to the enslaved Africans and their descendants by erasing Africa's memory …
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Hizb Ut-Tahrir: Preemptively Eradicating the Recruitment Pool For Radical Islamic Terrorist Organizations
… Global War on Terror continue, the United States and its allies must continue to evolve their counter-terrorism strategies to combat the long-term threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism. For the West, the most prolific component of the Global War on Terror is the psychological battle to win the …
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Countering-insurgency : a comparative analysis of campaigns in Malaya (1948-1960), Kenya (1952-1960) and Rhodesia (1964-1980)
… operations in countries resembling Iraq and Afghanistan? This research set out to study three historical counter-insurgencies campaigns in, Malaya (1947-1960), Kenya (1952- 1960) and Rhodesia (1964-1980), with a view to establishing whether or not the Colonial authorities had a …
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An examination of K-8 principals' perceptions of their readiness to lead sustainable systems of equity that center culturally responsive school leadership practices which influence the academic achievement of African American students
… with the profound effects of the global pandemic and ever-present racial injustices that have dominated public discourse over the past two years. As adults work feverishly to create a sense of normalcy that has allowed most people to return to the workplace, children have also returned to …
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Regulating competitive balance in sport
… integral part of popular culture, capturing the hearts and minds of millions of people from every section of society 1. Maintaining competitive balance in sport is essential in preserving its long term survival. A higher uncertainty of outcome in contests is likely to result in greater spectator …
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Generation Z, Employee Enagement And Leadership Communication Behaviors
<p>As Generation Z enters the workforce, new and perplexing questions for leaders emerge. Members of Generation Z, the generational cohort following the Millennials, were born in 1995 and later and come with unique characteristics, including an ability to use technology and consume online data in …
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