This dissertation is a study of the “Vietnam Syndrome,” a history of the continued power of the Vietnam War experience as a complicated symbol of previous American foreign policy and its effects on later policies through four presidential administrations. In the wake of the Viet…
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In July 1977 Somalia invaded the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, a land to which Somalia laid traditional and historical claim. This struggle might have remained a minor border conflict among small nations on the Horn of Africa were it not for the Cold War. The Soviet Union was heavi…
The purpose of this dissertation is to broaden the categories of image studies, which primarily focus on the opponent or the enemy and nation-states that are dependent on the Western countries, to include three additional classifications that examine Cyrus Vance's worldview or p…
Presidents play a critical role in the formulation of United States foreign policy, however the presidential studies literature and foreign policy analysis literature arrive at very different conclusion regarding how presidents influence the policy process and both are often ina…
On April 28, 1980, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance joined William Jennings Bryan in the exclusive club of U.S. secretaries of state who resigned in the twentieth century as a matter of principle. Cyrus Vance fought and lost a number of significant policy battles during the Jim…
Following a coup by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in April 1978, the Soviet Union and the United States were increasingly drawn into a civil war in Afghanistan that helped to shape the end of the Cold War, with the crucial decisions made in Moscow, Washingt…
This thesis covers diplomatic events prior to the 4 November 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. It discusses communications from the Carter administration to the government of Iran at the peak of the Monarch's downfall and how the Shah came to believe that the Western world and Presid…
My dissertation examines US foreign policymakers' conceptions of political Islam in the broader Middle East as they created a military presence there from 1977-1988. I argue that this served as a way to re-assert American military involvement on a global scale after the Vietnam …
President Jimmy Carter took office with the intention to halt nuclear proliferation, to implement reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and to maintain détente with the Kremlin. Yet the president ended his tenure with more weapons programs in the works, a more explicit posture …
The oil shocks of the 1970s, initiated by the first Arab oil embargo in 1973, stunned the industrialized world. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) controlled a resource that was vital to the national well-being and national security of America and its allie…