Regionalism moves in waves, but some dimensions of regional integration, such as delegation of authority, seem to increase no matter what. Standard European integration theories do not have an explanation for this phenomenon, most cases do not fit its theoretical expectations. M…
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Although it is perhaps impossible to define it in a literal and univocal form, conflict can be simply understood as the “collision of opposing interests” (Cooper, 2003, p. 85), and violent conflict, then, as the attempt to settle those differences through violent means. The anal…
Responding to developments within the field of British nuclear culture, this thesis uses the concept of the sociotechnical imaginary (STIM) to trace the social and cultural history of the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria between 1945 and 1990. Drawing upon oral histories of…
During WWII and the early Cold War, an American research program centered on Fort Detrick, Maryland sought to transform germs into weapons. Though sponsored by the military officials of the US Army Chemical Corps, this program was heavily intertwined with the civilian microbiolo…
The Women’s Army Corps started as a temporary organization but became an official part of the military in 1943. With the passage of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act in 1948, the WAC became a permanent part of the US Army, but WACs did not fully integrate into the Army …
Structural realists argue the nation-state is a unitary actor that conducts foreign policy without regard to domestic politics. Anarchy, the lack of any controlling authority, is the dominant fact of life for states within the international system. Operating within this self-hel…
In 1966, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared, "India is a good and deserving friend. Let it never be said that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap that we turned in indifference from her bitter need." The sweeping presidential rhetoric did not match the re…
The Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear program is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States today. All indications suggest that Iran is determined to be the next nuclear power as it continues to defy international will and resists international diplomatic pressure…
This project examines the role that the Cold War discourse plays in informing and structuring the Russian and US mainstream and alternative news media narratives about international events and controversies that occur in the post-Cold War time but trace their historical roots to…
The 1960 was a momentous year for Nigeria as it made a transition from British to self rule. But this change in status posed serious difficulties: because of her size, economic potential and the possibility of playing a leading role in African affairs, she was vulnerable to bein…
My dissertation explores how the movement of missionaries across Asia responded to the currents of nationalism, decolonization, and the Cold War producing ideas about sovereignty, race, and religious rights. More specifically, it looks at how U.S. evangelicals in the China Inlan…
This dissertation examines the early history (1947–1954) of the Joint American Military Mission to Aid Turkey (JAMMAT) and its role in shaping U.S.-Turkish relations and as a window into the developing Cold War policies and strategies of the United States. This study begins by d…
The period after the Second World War was a significant moment in British colonialism in Nigeria. It was the height of the decolonization movements in many of Britain's colonial holdings and was the cradle of what David Low and J. M. Lonsdale call the "second colonial occupation…
International education served a dual function in the American-Iranian relationship during the thirty-seven-year reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. On the one hand, education was the most important component to the shah's project of authoritarian development - a model of rapid…
This dissertation addresses the question of the foreign policy views of the leading spokespeople for the Religious Right in the United States since the end of World War II. The analysis begins with the early years of the Cold War, focusing on the religious overtones that quickly…
When U.S. Marines landed near Beirut on July 15, 1958, it was the first case in the post World War II era in which American decision-makers thought that protecting Western interests in the Middle East required direct military involvement. In taking the lead by applying the full …
This dissertation examines how women, as a group, and domesticity, as a system of gender relations, shaped the Cold War conservative ascendancy. After World War II, when California reached new heights of electoral importance as the most populous state in the nation, the greater …
In order to understand the history of American foreign relations, one must grasp its philosophical foundations. America's foreign policy throughout the twentieth century was based on the precepts of Woodrow Wilson. These included the promotion of national self-determination and …
This dissertation responds to historiography that overlooks roles played by non-state actors in shaping American foreign relations, domestic politics, and popular culture. It looks at ways in which influential Americans—government, cultural industries, and business—joined audien…