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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Kissinger"”.
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Embedded ideologies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia crisis 1971
… Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s decision-making process and produced a costly and unstable foreign policy during the 1971 India-Pakistan crisis and war. Based primarily on a close reading of archival sources in the 3,700-hour collection of Nixon tapes, and the Nixon …
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To the brink of empire : Rusk, Kissinger and the transformation of American foreign policy
… 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 pre-Machiavellian …
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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 by …
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Detente or Razryadka? The Kissinger-Dobrynin Telephone Transcripts and Relaxing American-Soviet Tensions, 1969-1977.
… 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 conversations …
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U.S. Foreign Policy toward Sino-U.S. Rappraochement in the Early 1970s : A Study of Secrecy in Bureaucratic Politics.
… the pursuit of strict secrecy by Nixon and Kissinger as the key feature of the U. S. rapprochement with China in the early 1970s. It was Nixon's presidential leadership that drove the new China initiative, together with Kissinger as a skilful operator and negotiator. The centralization of …
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US policy towards Indochina, 1973-6
… war" theory adequately captures Nixon and Kissinger's post-Paris Agreement strategy. Moreover, my study attempts to highlight both the accuracy and shortcomings of Nixon and Kissinger' s own accounts. In so doing, it aims to offer a new interpretation of Nixon, Kissinger, and later Ford's …
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The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of Post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
… 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 in an …
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Understanding and Optimizing Nanophase Separation Sintering
… process in more complicated. For this reason, a Kissinger style analysis for sintering dilatometric data was derived. This allowed us to understand how different temperature dependent mechanisms, represented by densification rate peaks, facilitate the different stages of NPSS. First, however, the …
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"Let Us Not Be Misled": A Critical Appraisal of Characterization in John Adams's Nixon in China
… 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 historical …
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Role of Nanosize Effects on the Adsorptive and Catalytic Properties of NiO Nanoparticles towards Heavy Hydrocarbons
… n-C5 asphaltene post-adsorption oxidation, the Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS) kinetic method was used to estimate the kinetic triplets, namely f (α), Eα and Aα.
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L'anno che non fu? L'anno dell'Europa e la crisi nelle relazioni transatlantiche, 1973/74
… destined to sum up to nothing practical - as Kissinger himself put it, it was destined to be the Year that never Was.1 It is my opinion, however, that its failure should not conceal its historical interest. Even though transatlantic relations have sometimes been seen as an uninterrupted …
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Deliberate uncertainty : the South Asian Crisis of 1971, the Nixon White House, and the U.S. State Department
… and his primary foreign policy advisor, Dr. Kissinger, deliberately misled and misinformed the US State Department and its Ambassadors abroad in Pakistan and India in an effort to keep secret from them and the American public, the President's desire to support Pakistan and to blame India as …
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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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Crystallization kinetics of phase change materials for novel data storage concepts
… Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolomogorov model and the Kissinger model. The results of both models are then connected, in order to be able to compare the experimental results obtained by both of them later on. Starting with calorimetry measurements and temperature dependent resistivity measurements, the …
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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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Physical, mechanical and durability properties of sugarcane ash enhanced compressed earth blocks stabilized with fly ash and lime powder
… FTIR, DSC and TGA. Three degradation models, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose (KAS), Flynn-Wall-Ozawa (OFW), and Kissinger (KGR) methods were employed to determine apparent activation energy values of untreated SCB and SW, and their respective celluloses. The apparent activation energy values obtained …
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Part I: In-situ fluorometric quantification of microalgal neutral lipids Part II: Thermal degradation behavior of investment casting polymer patterns
… and activation energies were determined by Kissinger and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa methods"--Abstract, page iv.</p>
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Interregional ecology - resource flows and sustainability in a globalizing world
In a globalizing world, trade has become essential to supporting the needs and wants of billions of people. Virtually everyone now consumes resource commodities and manufactured products traded all over the world; the ecological footprints of nations are now scattered across the globe. The spatial …
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