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This thesis examines composer Nicolas Nabokov’s political involvement in the world of music in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular it concerns his attempt to use contemporary art music as a means of countering the influence of the Soviet Union, via the festivals he organised for …

After World War II, the emerging United States intelligence establishment fought the Soviet threat through evolving means in the new Cold War world. Although American Central Intelligence started as a glorified 'paperboy,' it quickly became a powerful agency capable of influenci…

This thesis examined the common idea that the CIA is a regime change advocate by testing the merits of two competing political science theories, one focused on internal (endogenous) influences within CIA and one focused on external (exogenous) pressures on CIA emanating from the…

This thesis will present a diplomatic and political history of the United States’ engagement with the Argentinean junta between the Coup of 1976 and 1981. It demonstrates how Operation Condor revealed strife and competition between U.S. agencies such as the Central Intelligence …

The history of U.S. foreign-policy has been a long and winding road since America's birth in the late eighteenth century. Part of its more recent past entails the nation's intervention in the decade-long Soviet-Afghanistan War that took place between 1979 and 1989. Much of the a…