This dissertation examines the early history (1947–1954) of the Joint American Military Mission to Aid Turkey (JAMMAT) and its role in shaping U.S.-Turkish relations and as a window into the developing Cold War policies and strategies of the United States. This study begins by d…
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My dissertation explores how the movement of missionaries across Asia responded to the currents of nationalism, decolonization, and the Cold War producing ideas about sovereignty, race, and religious rights. More specifically, it looks at how U.S. evangelicals in the China Inlan…
The end of the Cold War has led to significant understanding and cooperation between two major superpowers, and has given many to believe that the age of nuclear fear would be over. Unfortunately, although there were successes in reducing the world of nuclear stockpiles and many…
While launching pre-emptive military strikes and extending U.S. security guarantees are often analyzed as ways to prevent nuclear proliferation, little attention has been paid to using conventional arms transfers to curb nuclear proliferation. Leaders of countries with nuclear a…
This dissertation examines the Indonesian war of independence: the process by which the archipelago formerly known as the Netherlands East Indies decolonized between 1945 and 1949. Based on extensive archival research, it investigates this revolutionary struggle through the lens…
This thesis explores the efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation in Nigeria's University of Ibadan during the years 1960 to 1969. I argue that the Foundation, though ostensibly nonpartisan, in truth served as an extension of the existing U.S. foreign policy apparatus. To promote A…
After World War II, the emerging United States intelligence establishment fought the Soviet threat through evolving means in the new Cold War world. Although American Central Intelligence started as a glorified 'paperboy,' it quickly became a powerful agency capable of influenci…
Using a feminist transdisciplinary research approach, this dissertation interrogates the discursive configurations that constituted the framework of meaning within which the United States conducted its relationship with the Russian Federation between 1991 and the U.S.-led invasi…
This dissertation examines Cyrus Vance's approach to Soviet-American relations during the Carter administration by focusing on five specific situations: the SALT II negotiations completed in June 1979, the American reaction to the crisis in the Horn of Africa in late 1977 and ea…
My dissertation argues that key writers and filmmakers played crucial roles in shaping and challenging a theological critique of America's mythic innocence which evolved in the early years of the Cold War. In the shadow of concerns about the spread of totalitarian systems, the A…
This dissertation focuses on the political career of Enoch Powell. It follows Powell's trajectory from a young army officer in the British Raj to the center of British politics in the 1960s through to his return to the periphery in Ulster Unionism. It argues that Powell's notori…
As the situation in Cyprus became volatile near the end of 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent Cyrus R. Vance as his personal envoy to broker a peace between Greece and Turkey, and prevent a possible war between the NATO allies. Vance's Mission, while very important at the ti…
Following a coup by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in April 1978, the Soviet Union and the United States were increasingly drawn into a civil war in Afghanistan that helped to shape the end of the Cold War, with the crucial decisions made in Moscow, Washingt…
Since the end of the Cold War, violent ethnic conflict has coincided with an increase in the number of failed or collapsed states and the emergence of more muscular and intrusive forms of external intervention by the United Nations. This dissertation explores the relationship be…
This dissertation argues that a certain set of concerns, organized around the "internal focus" or fear that the "republic" was fragile, influenced the national security thinking of both the pre-war conservative isolationists in America First and the early Eisenhower administrati…
This dissertation demonstrates a previously undocumented aspect of John F. Kennedy's Cold War strategy. At the start of his administration Kennedy launched a personal policy initiative to court African nationalist leaders. This policy was designed as a strategy to improve U.S.-A…
From the beginning of the republic's founding, Turkey displayed impressive diplomatic prudence in maintaining strong relations with Europe's major powers. However, the end of the Second World War marked the beginning of a new chapter in Turkish foreign policy. In response to the…
Regionalism moves in waves, but some dimensions of regional integration, such as delegation of authority, seem to increase no matter what. Standard European integration theories do not have an explanation for this phenomenon, most cases do not fit its theoretical expectations. M…
Although it is perhaps impossible to define it in a literal and univocal form, conflict can be simply understood as the “collision of opposing interests” (Cooper, 2003, p. 85), and violent conflict, then, as the attempt to settle those differences through violent means. The anal…