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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Henry Kissinger"”.
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Changes in the rhetoric of realism : Henry Kissinger on MFN trade renewal for China.
… this project examines the rhetoric of Henry Kissinger in regards to a speech he delivered on the topic of MFN trade status for China. Changes in Kissinger's unique brand of realist rhetoric are examined by employing Kenneth Burke's (1966) concepts of communication. This thesis concludes …
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To the brink of empire : Rusk, Kissinger and the transformation of American foreign policy
… this thesis compares and contrasts Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger. They will be compared and contrasted by asking three general questions. How did they view the United States? How did they view the World? How did they view the United States' role in the world?Dean Rusk represents a …
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Detente or Razryadka? The Kissinger-Dobrynin Telephone Transcripts and Relaxing American-Soviet Tensions, 1969-1977.
… Security Adviser and later Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to the US Anatoly Dobrynin formed a relationship which provided the empathy needed to bridge many of the ideological differences between their two countries. It examines transcripts of their telephone …
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"Let Us Not Be Misled": A Critical Appraisal of Characterization in John Adams's Nixon in China
… Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Ch’ing, Chou En-lai and Henry Kissinger. The first chapter outlines the motivations and intentions of Adams, Goodman, Sellars and other key collaborators. The heart of the thesis is the second chapter, which details and compares the representation of the six major …
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American Machiavelli: Samuel P. Huntington the Author of Grand Strategy
… close friends and 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 …
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The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of Post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
… with a focus on the role of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the formulation, implementation and subsequent defence of US Angolan policy. By examining the immediate post-Vietnam period, this thesis shows that Vietnam had a significant impact on Kissinger’s actions on Angola, which resulted …
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No More Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: The Nixon Doctrine, South Korea, and the Vietnam War
… Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy priority centered on improving relations with the superpowers, particularly the Soviet Union and China. The United States thus sought South Korea’s cooperation in helping it extricate itself from the Vietnam War …
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"All the Crises Reached a Concerted Crescendo" - The Arab Oil Embargo and Why the United States Was Unprepared for It
… makers and leaders of the time, most notably Henry Kissinger, Anwar el-Sadat, and Richard Nixon, Senate hearings testimony, recently declassified government documents detailing plans for U.S. invasion, and contemporary newspapers which recorded public perception. I argue that decades of living …
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“Otherwise, it’s War”: US-Taiwan Defense Ties and the Opening of the People’s Republic of China (1969-1974)
… President Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger saw these circumstances as an opportunity to reshape the global balance of power. Key to this plan was a diplomatic ‘opening’ to the PRC, which would engender a tripolar balance of power to counter the Soviet Union’s grip on Asia. …
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A Moment of Failure: The Debate Surrounding the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
… 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 of 1972 and 1979 (SALT I and II). Following the success that SALT I had in de-escalating …
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US Foreign Policy During the Nixon and Ford Administrations
… I examined declassified US Government documents, Kissinger "telecons", speeches, television interviews, memoirs and other primary sources as well as several types of secondary sources, using a variation of the theory-guided process tracing method to construct and interpret the narrative of events …
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The Oil Weapon Moment: The 1973 Oil Embargo and its Impacts on U.S. Energy Politics
This dissertation examines the impacts of the 1973 Arab petrostate oil embargo on U.S. energy politics. I argue that the embargo was the moment that transformed oil from a domestic and highly regulated commodity into a matter of national security and competitive geopolitics. While its likelihood …