Communism is not only treated as a past phenomenon in Malaysia but it is considered so benign that its government recently restored several underground tunnels and caves at the Malaysia-Thai border as a museum project for tourist consumption. Seen in this manner, communism in Ma…
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The relationship between the United States of America and the Republic of Indonesia following the end of the Second World War was a complex one. In an attempt to study the complexity, this dissertation surveys U.S. policies toward Indonesia from the administration of President H…
Sino-Lao relations from 1954 through 1995, in the context of world politics, and with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, is the subject of this work. In chapter one the historical setting for Sino-Lao relations is prese…
This dissertation asks why multilateral military intervention occurs in the case of civil conflict. This is a particularly important question because the pattern of intervention has changed dramatically. Civil conflict is a problem which leads to international response, and the …
The conclusion of the Cold War has had contradictory effects on on-going conflicts in the former superpower client states of Ethiopia, Somalia and Angola. The argument proposed in this dissertation seeks to explain these variations in conflict. Two conditions, distribution of po…
Recent threats of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction have given rise to a national debate regarding whether American law enforcement agencies should receive expanded authority, and civil liberties should be diminished, in order to combat foreign and domestic terrorists. W…
This dissertation examines the Cold War and its termination, the collapse of the Russian empire which was embodied in the Soviet Union, and the evolution of Russian policy towards the Commonwealth of Independent States from 1992 to 1997. These subjects are examined in order to a…
The thesis chronologically presents the slow improvement of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, starting with Stalin's death on 5 March 1953, through their full normalization in 1955 and 1956, to the renewed ideological confrontation at the end of 1956. The normal…
This dissertation examines how women, as a group, and domesticity, as a system of gender relations, shaped the Cold War conservative ascendancy. After World War II, when California reached new heights of electoral importance as the most populous state in the nation, the greater …
Although stability is one of the most important ideas of international relations theory, it remains one of the least carefully studied and least well-understood terms in the disciplinary lexicon. The leading theories of Cold War stability have emphasized bipolarity, nuclear weap…
World politics has been led by the notion of a unipolar world since 1989/1991 when the Cold War “ended”. This strategy has seen an increase in the size of NATO, an expansion of the war on terror, and a renewed sense of military and diplomatic hostility between the United States …
Baas Partisi, Arap dünyasında ilk ideolojik parti olarak Suriye'de doğdu ve Arap politik düşüncesinde büyük bir boşluğu doldurdu. Baasçılar, bir ideoloji oluşturmak ve Suriye ve diğer Arap devletlerinde pek çok kişiyi çekmek için etkili bir ideoloji üretmeyi başardılar. Baasçı A…
The main aim of this study is to find out whether or not, and to what extent the European Neighbourhood Policy contributes to European security in the light of effects of changing international structure on European scale. To that end, a neo-realist approach is applied in the st…
This thesis is an intellectual biography of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-), one of the best known and most influential military officers of the early Cold War. It focuses on Ridgway's role in American foreign relations and the evolution of his ideology, with its interdep…
This dissertation examines how the activists of Hizb al-Istiqlal (Independence Party) conducted a worldwide publicity campaign, which contributed to the abolishing of the French and Spanish Protectorates in 1956. Organized around propaganda offices on three different continents,…
This dissertation proposes to examine the conspiracy narratives of Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Leslie Marmon Silko that retell American experience with the Cold War and its culture of paranoia for the last half of the twentieth century. Witnessing the resurgence of Cold War pa…
Multiculturalism Versus "Multi-national-ness " revisits the encounters of American writers with Soviet nationalities policy—Moscow's promise of a class-based solution to racial prejudice, coupled with its promotion of minority languages and cultures. The project revolves around …
A millennial narrative, created by an amalgamation of various apocalyptic and millenarian movements, has had a defining influence on the evolution of cultural identity in the United States. This study argues that evangelicals, as key guardians and interpreters of that paradigm, …
After its devastating defeat in World War II, Japan rebuilt its economy in a remarkably short period of time and transformed itself into the second largest economy and the leading creditor nation in the world. In contrast, postwar Japan has refrained from becoming a major milita…