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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"National Interests"”.
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U.S. Arctic National Interests and Arctic Engagement
… the emergence and evolution of United States' national interests in the Arctic region, as well as examines the factors that influence how the U.S. engages in cooperative endeavors in the region with other Arctic states. Though geographically located on the periphery of broader global politics, …
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Iran: an Emerging Military Threat to U.S. National Interests in the Middle East
… armament effort, together with an aggressive national leadership fired by both Islamic fundamentalist and Persian nationalist ambitions, are making Iran the new threat to regional security in the Persian Gulf and a likely challenge to U.S. national interests. In response to this potential …
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The Political Economy of Icelandic Nationalism : The Rise of the Rhetoric of 'National Interests‘
… the class structure, determined by economic interests, of Icelandic nationalism. In explaining the economic factors associated with the agents involved in promoting nationalist ideology standing for nationalist rhetoric, I adopt a critical realist approach, according to which market economy …
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Development of a domestic space launch ecosystem for optimal support of US national interests
… to establish new-entrant launch providers for National Security Space payloads. It is hypothesized that there is an infeasibility of the current space launch enterprise to scale to satisfy increased demand. If true, the USG will be unable to meet projected launch requirements to satisfy nominal …
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Mind the Gap: The Failure of the Central Intelligence Agency to Support U.S. National Interests
… U.S. policy, and often failed to advance U.S. interests in the Cold War. The estimate of the Soviet threat was consistently inaccurate. The bomber and missile gaps of the 1950s, which involved overestimating Soviet long-range bombers and missiles, was followed by a decade of underestimating …
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The U.S. Army School of the Americas and U.S. National Interests in the 20th Century
… in an influential position to achieve U.S. national interests. Prior to World War II, the training of Latin American militaries was intended to supplant German and Italian military missions. As the Allies neared victory in WWII, training programs formalized to sustain Inter-American military …
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The national interests of the United States in Southeast Asia : policy changes for their protection and promotion since the withdrawal from the naval base at Subic Bay
… it will employ in protecting and promoting national interests in the post-Cold War era. This thesis examines the author's perceived global national interests of the United States in the post-Cold War era, based upon the Preamble of the United States Constitution. United States national …
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Nemzeti érdekek az EU-ban. Az olasz európa-politika tanulságai, különös tekintettel az európai gazdasági kormányzásban betöltött szerepre = National Interests in the EU. Experiences of Italy’s European policy with special regard to its role in the European economic governance
A disszertáció a hazai és a nemzetközi szakirodalom elemzésén keresztül vizsgálja a nemzeti és az európai (közösségi) érdek viszonyát, ezek alakulását az integrációs folyamatban. Választ próbál találni arra, hogy mi a fő oka annak az utóbbi évtizedben egyre inkább erősödő jelenségnek, amely az EU …
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Voting behavior and social class among eighteen to twenty-one-year-old registered voters in Waco, Texas.
… has constructed a model for understanding international politics. Two assumptions regarding human nature and group behavior undergird a structure build around two poles, "national interests" and "community." From this perspective, Morgenthau arrives at the conclusion that a "community" does not …
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Education in the National Interest
… of educational policy devoted to serving "national interests." It begins with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation at Risk, which prescribed educational policies intended to serve the …
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Charitable women from mercantile literati families: women and public culture in late Qing China
… of social status into concerns for public and national interests. Women’s charity expanded to provide services and assistance related to the promotion of public interests, which involved providing services, funding, and training concerning women’s civil education, public charity, local …
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Taking Advantage of Institutional Possibilities and Network Opportunities : Analyzing Swedish Strategic Action in EU Negotiations
When core national interests are at stake, EU member states optimize their strategic activities on the European level in order to advance national preferences. Two cases are used in this study to shed light on such dynamics. The first case is Sweden’s strategic action within the transparency issue …
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Nuclear Weapons and Proxy Conflict
… the desire for relative power within the international system forces states to compete indirectly through proxies or surrogates. Such behavior was prevalent during the Cold War and can be seen currently in the emerging security environment. Given such evidence, the logical implication follows …
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Exhibit Eh: Canadian Dependency, U.S. Hegemony, and the Amorphousness of English Canadian Culture
… The hegemonic authority of American and trans-national interests, established and maintained in the cultural sphere through the extensive monopoly of the distribution of cultural and media products, perpetuates the amorphousness of English Canadian culture through the appropriation of Canadian …
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Egyptian-British-American Triangular Relations in the 1920s: Egypt's Efforts to Break Free of Colonial Tutelage
… States serves as a microcosm for the larger international context of the 1920s. Importantly, the relationship reveals much about Egypt's decolonization and national development strategies in the 1920s. The increasing internationalism of the 1920s offered new avenues to pursue national interests. …
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Explaining the U.S Failure in Afghanistan
… with pragmatic considerations to safeguard national interests, promote international stability, and advance global cooperation in the twenty-first century.</p>
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Frozen in Place: American Policy and Practice in Antarctica
… bureaucracy. The bureaucracy evolved its own interests, not all of which were consistent with national interests. As a result, a program with exemplary capacity struggled against internal squabbling, waste and inefficiency, leaving a gap between performance and potential. The Introduction …
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A 'Brazilian way'?: characteristics and challenges of Brazil's development assistance in Africa
… in 2003, highlighting both domestic and international factors that allowed this cooperation to rapidly increase, while analysing the ongoing Brazilian crisis undermining it. The final consideration is that Brazil's development cooperation is characterized by the duality of national interests …
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Compliance and defiance in patron-client state relationships: a case study of Pakistan’s relationship with the united states, 1947-2013
… the attainment of America’s vital strategic and national security objectives. On both occasions, the client regime benefited from considerable latitude provided by the patron to pursue domestic and foreign policies aimed at consolidating its own hold on power and protecting what were regarded as …
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