This dissertation examines a selection of texts produced in Britain from 1948 to 1988. The aim of this study is to consider how spy stories, in novels and in plays, reflect significant changes in postwar Britain. Drawing on a diverse collection of texts and writers, the followin…
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President Richard M. Nixon's fear and hatred of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) resulted in the SDS having an undue influence on his foreign policies. The SDS was a small faction of the larger Anti-Vietnam War movement. Despite that, by 1969, Nixon's fixation on the …
This thesis situates figure skating, music, and Cold War politics during three separate Winter Olympic Games held in 1968, 1976, and 1988, examining the impact of this intersection on the sport of figure skating. Through a survey of seven Olympic medal-winning figure skating pro…
The literature on the cultural Cold War acknowledges that American philanthropic foundations provided funding to various Cold War projects, but does not provide a close analysis of the foundations’ involvement or examine how philanthropies and government agencies coordinated the…
After the Korean War, most people regarded the performance of the U.S Army in that conflict as largely checkered. It had not once, but twice retreated disgracefully, losing to theoretically inferior third world armies. Its soldiers often performed poorly, not just in battle, but…
At the end of the Second Indochina War (more popularly known in the United States as the Vietnam War), the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, and Democratic Kampuchea were among Vietnam’s closest allies. At the same time, the new Socialist Republic was hoping to estab…
This thesis investigates the use of jazz music as an American diplomatic tool in Bombay (modern day Mumbai), India, during the late 1950s, a critical phase of the Cold War between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. Specifically, it addresses the Dave Br…
After Belgium granted independence to their previous colony in what is now theDemocratic Republic of Congo, a crisis ensued that would test the supremacy of the Westernbloc in Central Africa during the Cold War and the stability of neocolonial policy in a newlydecolonizing conti…
This work examines the history of US-Dominican relations from 1898-1967, highlighting the 1965 intervention and the Dominican election of 1966. It analyses the connections between the Wilsonian occupation, the US invasion of 1965, and the social theory of modernization and the A…
This dissertation investigates the relationship between foreign support and the survival of authoritarian regimes. Conventional wisdom suggests that great power patrons prop up client dictatorships. However, this is generally assumed rather than systematically analyzed. My disse…
Existing scholarship on the Brazilian 1960s has prioritized the participatory art of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, emphasizing their transcendence of the discrete and static art object as the epitome of Brazilian modernism. What is less recognized is the role figurative artist…
Situated between China and India, Burma is too seldom named in histories of the global Cold War. But Burma saw one of the earliest and most complex episodes of Cold War engagements across the Global South. The United States and the People’s Republic of China were the first Cold …
The Twelfth World Festival of Youth and Students that took place in Moscow in 1985 has largely been forgotten, but historical analysis of the event reveals that it had significant implications for the Soviet Union and Cold War. This thesis argues that the festival was a public c…
This dissertation explores how states make foreign policy decisions by focusing on superpowers and their decision calculus over strategic emerging technologies. It brings together work on arms control, advanced defense technologies, and decision making theories to generate a new…
This thesis examines the ways in which socio-cultural depictions of Akimel O’odham veteran Ira Hayes have changed over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Captured in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic 1945 photograph as one of the six Marines who raised the A…
My dissertation investigates the impact of the poetic texts of Frank O’Hara, particularly working to situate him as a war poet, a resistor of societal pressures and dominant political ideologies, and a poet who defied conventions of what it meant to be a man in mid-century Ameri…
During the 1980s, public diplomacy campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic competed for moral, political, and scientific legitimacy in debates over arms control, the deployment of new missile systems, ballistic missile defense, and the consequences of nuclear war. The U.S. and U…
This dissertation documents cultural processes of decolonization and nation-building in the mid-twentieth century between 1950 and 1970 between Southeast Asia and the West, specifically between Burma, Malaya, Thailand, and Great Britain and the United States, as they occurred th…
Nuclear weapons have the potential to dramatically change international relations, allowing nuclear powers to deter aggression by threatening to respond to attacks with massive destructive power. For nuclear threats to be credible, however, states must do two things: First, they…