This study examines the history of the Jordanian National Movement, focusing on the ideological principles of the movement, the events motivating the leaders to organize the various political parties and organizations making up the movement, and the political, economic and socia…
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This dissertation approaches the geopolitics of river infrastructure in the Indus Basin through the structured interaction of "hydraulic regionalism" and "technocratic developmentalism". The former occurs when regional elites feel their access to river resources are threatened b…
This project documents otherwise neglected dimensions entailed in the assemblage and implementations of political theories, namely their fabrication through encounters with their material, local, and affective constituents. Rather than emanating from the West and migrating to th…
This study examines the contributions made by the Carter administration to the end of the Cold War. Beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, the Carter administration took a much harder line in its relations with the Soviet Union. Washington set about to puni…
My dissertation examines ways Cold War fiction engages the politics and sociology of reading in post-World War II America. Juxtaposing texts by Alfred Hitchcock, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth with scores of post-war political, academic, and popular “how to read”…
To contribute to a better understanding of conditions that affect the development of democracy in the Arab-Islamic world this study focuses on Jordan. It identifies and assesses a number of internal and external factors that have contributed to or inhibited the course of democra…
In order to understand the history of American foreign relations, one must grasp its philosophical foundations. America's foreign policy throughout the twentieth century was based on the precepts of Woodrow Wilson. These included the promotion of national self-determination and …
This dissertation is the first archivally based study of West Germany's efforts to deny international recognition to East Germany. Using a combination of threats and financial incentives, leaders in Bonn persuaded non-communist states to avoid dealings with the regime in East Be…
This dissertation responds to historiography that overlooks roles played by non-state actors in shaping American foreign relations, domestic politics, and popular culture. It looks at ways in which influential Americans—government, cultural industries, and business—joined audien…
The Gorbachev epoch surprised and confounded most of the expectations and predictions of "totalitarianism" and "realism" on the question of change in the Soviet Union. Mainstream analysts--adhering, to varying degrees, to these two prevailing and mutually reinforcing Cold War pa…
This dissertation argues that at the 1972 Munich Olympics politics intervened into the Games on an unprecedented scale. This development was indeed ironic since Munich organizers had consciously attempted to stage Games—“Happy Games,” as they were touted-in which politics would …
This dissertation is a case study of the impact of the Cold War on international relations based on an inquiry into the development of diplomatic relations between a Great Power and a small country. It answers how the Cold War had made it impossible for China and Israel to estab…
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Truman administration officials were presented with a unique “window of opportunity” in that the absence of an external geopolitical threat to U.S. interests in Latin America allowed the State Department to pursue policies aimed at pro…
This dissertation examines the Bush administration's foreign policy at the end of the Cold War using a beliefs system approach. It contends that despite evidence pressuring the Bush administration to alter its beliefs, the administration continued to hold onto its core beliefs, …
This thesis explores the relationship between the AFL-CIO and the Polish Solidarity movement throughout the 1980s. It explores the evolving international policy of the AFL-CIO as it began to support Solidarity through financial and material aid, domestic and international campai…
This multidisciplinary project uses an historical and comparative study of imagery of the US within the rival propaganda and state development campaigns of Communist and Nationalist China during the 1950s and 60s to rethink post-war American power as a globally expansive and ide…
When China sent troops into North Korea to fight the UN forces in 1950, the Soviet Union's secret air cover for Chinese troops became critical support. However, the Soviet Union's determination to provide support was not easy. China and the Soviet Union's decision on this issue …
Why do great power rivals engage one another militarily, and under what conditions do those engagements occur and succeed? The answers matter greatly to American leaders debating how intensively to interact with China’s increasingly capable military. Unfortunately, few scholars …
You Don’t Have to Be a Bad Girl to Love Crime uses archival research, textual analysis, and industrial and cultural studies frameworks to re-evaluate women’s representation in post-World War II American radio and television crime dramas. It complicates popular and scholarly unde…