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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"foreign leaders"”.
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Enhancing U. S. Global Vision and Security by Assessing the Influences on Decision-Making of Foreign Leaders
… in the human mind and how they can affect foreign leaders in their decision-making processes. Today, the United States can no longer predict the behavior of its adversaries and allies with the confidence it had during the Cold War. Major changes in the security environment have created …
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Calculating bully : explaining Chinese coercion
… has used coercion for territorial disputes, foreign arms sales to Taiwan, and foreign leaders' meetings with the Dalai Lama, despite adverse implications for its international image. China is also curiously selective in the timing, target, and tools of coercion: most cases of Chinese coercion …
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Foreign perceptions of American casualty sensitivity : is your reputation worth fighting for?
… reputation for sustaining casualties (i.e., foreign perceptions of American casualty sensitivity) in order to test and shed light on the larger "reputation" hypothesis. For the purposes of this paper, the reputation hypothesis posits that foreign perceptions of American casualty tolerance are …
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“There Goes that Relationship”: Journalistic Aggression and Political Equivocation in Joint Press Conferences
… the relationship between the press and political leaders during joint press conferences. Aggressive journalistic questioning in press conferences has increased over time (Clayman & Heritage, 2002; Clayman, Elliott, Heritage, & McDonald, 2004; Clayman, Elliott, Heritage, & McDonald, 2007), but …
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The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of Post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
… Africa was a neglected region in Cold War US foreign policy, yet the effects of the Portuguese revolution led to a rapid decolonization of its African territories, of which Angola was to become the focus of superpower competition. After South Vietnam collapsed in April 1975, Kissinger became …
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Project Apollo, Cold War diplomacy and the American framing of global interdependence
… role that space exploration played in American foreign relations and national image making in the 1960s. Proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, Project Apollo was established, in large part, as a means of demonstrating American power and promoting technocratic values in an international …