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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"United States Foreign Policy"”.
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Woodrow Wilson's principled preaching on United States foreign policy, 1913--1917
… leadership, good government, and especially foreign policy. Wilson believed that good leaders used oratory to inform the people of important issues and guide them to support the best policies. His speeches reflect what he thought the public needed to know to approve his plans and undertakings …
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Playing the man: Masculinity, performance, and United States foreign policy, 1901--1920
… the Man": Masculinity Performance, and US Foreign Policy, 1901--1920 argues that early twentieth century conceptions of masculinity played a significant role in constructing US foreign policy and in creating a new sense of national identity. It focuses on five public figures (Jane Addams, …
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The Policy Arguer: A computational model of United States foreign policy belief systems, 1949-1960
… fruitful systematic approaches to the study of foreign policy views nations as information processors and explains foreign policy as a function of information and processes on that information. Much of the processing of input information depends on the prior beliefs of decision makers, but, for …
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The atomisation of the American Left: The unravelling of collectivism in protesting United States’ Foreign Policy
… force of dissent regarding, primarily, U.S. foreign policy. The approach of this thesis has been to examine two indicative and comparative case studies, two left-leaning activist groups that emerged spontaneously in the 1980s and 2000s in one of the most conservative areas of the United …
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Discourses and Notions of Identity in United States Foreign Policy: Israel and the 2014 Gaza War
… conflict and attempts to better understand U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically on Israel. By examining official U.S. government documents, media articles, and pop culture platforms, this project identifies dominant narratives within the United States on Israel and the Palestinian …
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The strategy & politics of expansionism: United States foreign policy toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898
… To probe such a question I explore McKinley's policy choices toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898, the latter territory being annexed while the former not. Each case is presented against three competing explanations derived from recent expansionist literature. Propositions from each …
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Race follows the American flag: A critique of the United States foreign policy during the Philippine-American War
… the political idea of power: the creation of the United States cultural identity and how that cultural identity creates both an imperialist focal point and also a foreign policy based on the racial composition of subjugated and would-be subjugated countries. Using Eric Voegelin's "theory of the …
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A study of South Africa's National Party perceptions of United States foreign policy in the 1980's with particular reference to sanctions
… South Africa's National Party perceptions on United States foreign policy in the 1980s. The primary area of focus is the policy switch from constructive engagement to punitive sanctions in the mid-1980s and the circumstances to which they have given rise. The following is a brief summary and …
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The Rhetorical Linkage Between Economic and Political Liberalization: A Case Study of the United States' Foreign Policy Response to the Arab Citizen Revolt
On May 19, 2011, in response to the Arab citizen revolt (ACR), otherwise known as the "Arab Spring," President Barack Obama addressed the future of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This thesis argues that the exigence of the president's address exemplifies a crisis in …
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A study of Hiram W. Johnson's public speaking technique and of his speech composition : as manifested in five of his speeches on United States foreign policy
… are restricted to the topic of U. S. foreing policy; 3. All but one of the speeches were made in the Senate, with its unique speech situation.</p><p>It was felt that with this study thus qualified, it could not be adequately evaluated, nor could its conclusions be justified, without the …
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U.S. foreign policy and Iraqi Kurdish separatism
This thesis addresses United States foreign policy toward Iraq, focusing on U.S. policy toward the Iraqi Kurds in the latter half of the 20th century. Specifically, it examines how U.S. policy has responded to Iraqi Kurdish separatism from the post World War II period until the present. By …
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Arguing Security: Rhetoric, Media Environment, and Threat Legitimation
… narratives in six episodes in the history of United States foreign policy. Through process tracing, I highlight how rhetorical resources and strategies changed the public debates and level of consent about a threat, and how the media environment influenced these rhetorical strategies.
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Force Requirements vs. Capabilities: United States Strategic Nuclear Policy in Transition, 1981-2001
United States' strategic nuclear policy has long been at the center of debate over military and foreign policy. The awesome power of strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles, and long-range manned bombers) and the possibility of massive …
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Transitions from military rule in South America: the obligational legitimacy hypothesis
… analysis of transitions, future transitions, and United States foreign policy options regarding military regimes, regimes in transition, and the new democracies of South America.
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Securing the Korean Peninsula with an Armed Nuclear North Korea: Identifying Pathways by Examining Past and Current Negotiations
The United States has been at war with North Korea since 1950, although hostilities have been on hold on the peninsula since July 27, 1953. Despite the cessation of active hostilities, the tensions on the Korean Peninsula increased in recent years when North Korea developed nuclear weapons. …
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Mare Imperium: the Evolution of Freedom of the Seas Discourse in U.S. Foreign Policy
… a genealogy of freedom of the seas discourse in United States foreign policy in order to problematize the contemporary representation lying at the heart of American political-military strategy in the Western Pacific. This project aims to accomplish two goals. First, this project aims to show that …
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Realism and Hegemonic Moralism: Germany and the United States in the Build-Up to the Second Gulf War
… conflicts; yet in the early 21st century, the United States initiated regime change in Iraq with claims of necessity pertaining to morality and security that could not be adequately explained using either framework. This thesis postulates that a paradigm shift in International Relations, as …
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US foreign policy and national development in the Caribbean, 1960-1976
… interest and activity. Yet at the same time, the United States has failed to articulate a distinctive Caribbean policy, separate from its policy towards Latin America. In part, this failure has resulted from the practical difficulty of determining a definition of "the Caribbean" - US policies …
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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler
… onslaught of modernization that transformed the United States in the beginning of the 20th century created a need for a new kind of hero, one akin to the cowboy hero in character, bravery, and wit, yet seemingly birthed from urbanity as undeniably as the cowboy was birthed from the open range. …
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