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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Isolationism"”.
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The 1944 Senatorial Election: The Defeat of Gerald P. Nye
… The particular problem involved here is that isolationism has been commonly interpreted as the decisive reason for his defeat. This, however, is a singular interpretation of history largely stemming from the national scene while ignoring developments on the local level.</p> <p>The procedure …
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I Am What I Say I Am: Racial and Cultural Identity among Creoles of Color in New Orleans
… to understanding Creole culture is the role that isolationism has played in its history. While White ethnics pursued a path of assimilation, Creoles of Color pursued a path of isolationism. This path served them well during the Jim Crow era, but it suddenly became undesirable during the Black …
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The London Committee
… forces complicated by clericalism, regionalism, isolationism, and idealism had been building up to a forceful climax. For two centuries the Spanish state had been corrupt and weak. When the State collapsed in 1808, an unreliable Army seized control. Thus began a struggle between the Army and an …
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Factors Affecting the Academic Success Of Students Transitioning From Middle School to High School
… & Sikes, 1993, p. Preface), claimed that just as isolationism was not successful in preventing the United States from becoming involved in a global conflict, neither is it a successful strategy for individual schools to practice if they are to plan effectively for a productive 12-year experience …
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Commodore Perry's 1853 Japanese Expedition: How Whaling Influenced the Event that Revolutionized Japan
… American politicians to confront Japanese isolationism. It is incorrect to assert that whaling, and not America's desire to gain access to China, was the main reason behind the 1853 Japanese Expedition. This paper's objective is to understand how whaling influenced Perry's mission. It …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… in Myanmar abandoned the socialist ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships with former insurgent groups …
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Political Triage: Health and the State in Myanmar (Burma)
… in Myanmar abandoned the socialist ideology and isolationism that had shaped the state since independence, embarking on a transition to an open economy and engagement of the international community. ¶ Where socialism had failed, economic development and partnerships with former insurgent groups …
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Essence and Meaning in Professional Development: The Writing Project Experience
… teachers' professional voice, breaks down isolationism, connects teachers to the writer within themselves, and attracts leaders while facilitating leadership in its members. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications researchers and educators may draw from the results.
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The interrelationships of nature based on Thoreau's Walden and Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis
… these connections and concentrates instead on isolationism. By viewing elements of the natural world as isolated entities, individuals are unable to comprehend the larger context, or environment of which these entities are a part. William James, a philosopher of the early twentieth century, …
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White Opinions Of United States Immigration: Testing Rival Hypotheses, 2004
… group pride, symbolic patriotism, ideology, and isolationism are the most consistent and significant predictors of immigration policy preferences. The use of four distinct dependent variable questions also highlights the inconsistency in public opinion regarding immigration and the division …
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On the Inquisitorial Spectrum : The Story of Comparative Criminal Procedure
… legal traditions. This claim of</p> <p>“legal isolationism” – readily embraced in American legal history and a further reason for American exceptionalism</p> <p>– has been buttressed by the phenomenon of “chronological isolationism,” which is widespread today. This work shows that despite …
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In Defense of a "Third Place": How Reassembling the Boundaries of an Urban Military Installation can Maintain Security while Uniting the Community
… with imperialism, segregation, racism and isolationism. But what about instances when security outweighs all other concerns? Is there a way to use the wall to maintain defensible space without negatively impacting the greater community? In the case of a military installation located in an …
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Forms of luminosity
… as presenting a tableau of consumerism, control, isolationism, and identity (as they are associated with the iPod), the performance questions whether pre-existing music can be engaging and relevant to an audience. My project uses bricolage and standpoint theory as guiding theoretical principles. A …
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America's Moral Responsibility?: The Debate over American Intervention in the Near East after WWI
… its relationship to humanitarianism, American isolationism in the interwar years, and the partisan atmosphere of American postwar politics.
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Negotiating for nature: Conservation diplomacy and the Convention on Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere, 1929--1976
… the Americas, and the prevailing policy of isolationism spreading in tandem with the concerns over the tensions in Europe. These stimuli generated enormous concern on the local, state, and federal levels of most governments in the Pan American Union, but nowhere more so than in the United …
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‘Save Spain’: British Support for the Spanish Republic within Civil Society in Britain, 1936–1939
… this policy was not necessarily indicative of isolationism. It suggests that support for Republican Spain, even where it was largely ‘humanitarian’ in character, went alongside interest in the issues surrounding the conflict and is illustrative of a degree of both democratic engagement and …
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Opportunities for U.S.-China scientific collaboration in building a bilateral quantum network
… the U.S. has adopted a policy of innovation isolationism since ²0¹9 in an effort to minimize scientific and technological exchanges between the two countries. We argue that the U.S. security framework needs a paradigm shift because the country cannot address several major vulnerabilities in …
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Student Perceptions Of Faculty-Student Advisory Programs At Three Secondary Schools
… Large schools provide more opportunity for isolationism of groups of students. Students can feel disconnected. Ten themes were identified as student perceptions of the advisory program in the secondary school environment. Students perceived the advisory programs as most effective for …
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Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980
… ideology shifted its primary focus from isolationism and New Deal opposition to strict anti-communism. The conservatism of the 1920s through the 1940s, under the leadership of Robert Taft, would give way to a more modern conservatism influenced by a variety of Catholic and anti-communist …
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Strategizing for peace: approaches to global security in crisis and war 1933-1953
… the United States remaining focused largely on isolationism. American policy analysts underwent a dramatic shift in focus as a result of their country's entry into the war, and joined their British counterparts in an intense discussion of how best to organize international security in the years …
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