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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, …

With the waning of the Cold War, the management of ethnic and regional conflicts has come to play a role of ever-increasing importance in American foreign policy thinking. The past decade has witnessed the largest American military interventions abroad since the Vietnam era. In …

In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, and for nearly the next six months the American public waited to see what the U.S. response would be. According to Gallup polls, a steadfast 30 percent or more of the public remained adamantly opposed to a military option until the first day …