Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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…

This dissertation explains why the Franco-American relationship fell apart between 1958 and 1963, from Charles de Gaulle's return to power to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These five years mark the height of the Cold War as the two Berlin crises and the Cuban Missile cri…

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…

As a major world figure at the time of his selection as Columbia University's president in 1947, Dwight Eisenhower had already demonstrated his considerable capacity as a leader during World War II. Given he was not an academic and had no prior experience in college administrati…

The Eisenhower Administration attempted to contain the Soviet Union, to contain "radical" Arab nationalism, and to ensure peace and stability in the Mid East by encouraging and supporting the Baghdad Pact, a collective security organization consisting of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Paki…

This thesis examines the historic and diplomatic ties between the United States and the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, and the roles played by Statesmen Dwight D. Eisenhower and King Hussein in the preservation of the Jordanian state despite domestic upheaval, regional turmoil, an…

During the early Cold War, the United States depended on Middle Eastern oil to sustain European reconstruction and defense. Its extraction involved a series of arrangements among oil-producing and -transit states, petroleum corporations, and the western allies known collectively…

This dissertation analyzes the Eisenhower administration's response to Arab nationalism. It is argued that the Eisenhower administration adopted a policy aimed at dividing Arab countries and exploiting inter-Arab rivalries. One faction, led by President Eisenhower, favored reach…

The main argument of this work is that the Eisenhower administration's Indochina policy at this historical juncture was largely set by the international and domestic climate at the time. By tracing the course of policy-making from the beginning of the Dienbienphu battle to the e…

This dissertation is an examination of US public diplomacy efforts in the Arab world during the Eisenhower administration, focusing primarily on the US response to Egypt and Arab nationalism. The primary contribution that this study makes to the literature on US relations with t…

In light of the application of the Bush Doctrine in Iraq, this research examines U.S. presidential decisions to use or not to use preventive force as a method of counter proliferation. In order to determine the circumstances in which presidents use preventive force to counter nu…

The persistent emotional quality of America's attachment to Israel, religious and secular, and the notion that a ‘special relationship’ existed since Truman gave America's support to the creation of the state, has often obscured where practical policy choices began and ended. If…