This dissertation examines the official writings and personal experiences of U.S. diplomats since the end of World War Two who have disagreed with fundamental aspects of the nation's foreign policies, including the militarization of the Cold War, the refusal to cooperate with th…
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This thesis examines Egypt’s foreign policy in the mid-1960s through the lens of her five-year intervention in the Yemeni Civil War. It traces the fall of Egyptian fortunes from the aftermath of the Syrian secession to the eve of the Six Day War, arguing that complications arisi…
Recent scholarship has suggested that contemporary U.S. journalism depicts a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam, representing global affairs as an inevitable conflict between diametrically opposed cultures: the good West and the evil East. Purportedly, the clash…
This dissertation argues that the Soviet-American rapprochement, a centerpiece of American foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford presidencies, failed to reach its full potential due to the ongoing competition between Washington and Moscow for control of the Middle East. Despi…
My research reexamines the logic employed by John E. Mueller (1973) War, Presidents and Public Opinion in his pioneering work on public attitudes towards war. Mueller argues that the primary factor leading to antagonism toward war is the number of casualties. My research suggest…
Neoconservatives forged a strategic culture during the Cold War. Their strategic culture embodied core values related to the defense of liberal democratic institutions, assumptions about the resilience of totalitarian regimes, and fears of the vulnerabilities of free societies a…
As Henry Jackson exhorted defense lobbyists during the height of the Cold War, “The Russians are determined to play the game of power politics, and we cannot choose not to play. The only course open to us is to play it better or to lose.” This mindset typified a “Coterie” of Sen…
In order to illuminate the dynamics of U.S. policy and its effects in Iran, the author conducts a systematic analytical study of U.S. policy toward Iran during the early cold war years in general and toward the nationalist regime of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh in particular. The inte…
Turkey, which maintained her neutrality during the war, did not hesitate to join the American led camp immediately after World War II. Soviet pressure compelled Turkey to seek an American alliance, which was the only power to help Turkey against the Soviet threat. Turkey establi…
These pages seek to elucidate why Congress responded to the 1974 Turkish intervention in Cyprus with an arms embargo that cost the United States its highly valued military bases and facilities in Turkey. The decision was at the time attributed to the influence of politically eng…
This dissertation seeks to understand how the easing of the East-West tensions, the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union affected Turkey's foreign policy. During the cold war period, Ankara's role as a front-line state in containing. Soviet expansionism…
This dissertation is a study of the origins and development of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War rivalry in Iran from 1945 to 1963 and its influence on the political, economic, and social development of the country. It begins by tracing the origins of the Cold War rivalry in Iran to the …
The problem analyzed in this dissertation is whether international factors were contributory causal factors in the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. Three theoretical frameworks were selected to explore this problem: theories of revolution, theories of international relations and…
This study examined the role of Turkish-American relations in the origins of the Cold War, with particular reference to the perceptions, thoughts, and policy development of United States leaders. The research relied heavily on published and declassified U.S. government documents…