Essays 91 - 120
There was Pearl Harbor and there was the internment in the United States to boot. During the cold war days, there was a great deal...
principles were rationalized due to the assumptions made about the nature of the Cold War and, also, literature suggests that thes...
initiative depended on the use of not just ground-based systems but also space-based systems for the protection of our national ho...
world has, in fact, led to greater, not lesser, influence of religious leaders (Shah and Toft, 2006). The authors trace this over ...
less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
means of murder, war and starvation (Kurth, 1995). Disaster after disaster followed one upon another through the middle nineteen ...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
This stereotypical clash with womens new on-the-job expectations created a shift in the treatment they received when toiling at a ...
pursuing a d?tente "that would stabilize mutual deterrence and contain the costs of competition in regional affairs" (Herrmann and...
for this type of research, but in explaining Lefflers work, Trachtenberg has gone into substantial detail about Trumans policies, ...
nuclear proliferation had to be a reality. It was. But others have a different point of view. The origin of the term is Latin. P...
other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...
collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...
British Prime Minister) in 1946 that required immediate attention. Proposing that atomic energy be placed under international con...
or another, repeat itself. In his introduction the student can find information which alludes to this theory as LaFeber presents u...
also during this time in history where smaller nations were the targets of intense competition between the United States and the S...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
slow process of the building up of defences between the ever expanding Eastern block and the strong alliance of the Western countr...
to us that, for a 10-year-old, the world continues to hold great promise. In the meantime, no one ever said growing up was easy" (...
policy and the position of the British government. Britain was trying to assert itself as a world power during those decades and t...
onto the editorial boards of intellectually-oriented newspapers.6 Grose tells of how American intelligence agencies recruited Alb...
when the threat that caused their creation no longer exists. The Constructivists, in contrast, contend that alliances exist becau...
Russian Revolution was all for naught. Communism was a dismal failure and Russia is now a poor country while the U.S. is seen as t...
Cold War possessed many instigators from American paranoia to a lack of mutual cooperation to the outright compromise of foreign p...
confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...
because he knew it would be so controversial, Kennan at first published this article anonymously. However, after Walter Lippmann, ...
In addition, it was...
writes that he was a particularly important source during the Cuban missile crisis. Ultimately, however, Penkovsky became more id...