Após o seu handover em 1999, Macau viu-lhe atribuída a missão de operar como plataforma entre a China e os Países de Língua Portuguesa (PLPs). Sob a atenta orientação de Pequim, a sua vocação histórica, lusófona e multicultural surge coadunada com a estratégia chinesa de going o…
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Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…
In January 2010, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton confidentially sent a diplomatic cable to the international community. In it, she sought "to secure the cooperation of" concerned recipients with America's strategy for dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapon…
This thesis is a conflicts study - but rather than primarily examining origins or conduct, it aims to explore and illuminate the causes and conditions for reconciliation in wartime, successful and unsuccessful. This study takes in-depth looks at two periods of history in two Asi…
This study analyzes U.S. relations with the Barbary States from 1784 to 1805. After the American Revolution, the young nation found its commerce menaced in the Mediterranean by North African pirates sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sou…
The "Special Relationship" between the United States and Great Britain was one of the fundamental factors in International diplomacy in the years between 1950 and the Suez Crisis of 1956. Although many articles and books have been written which examine individual crises and epis…
This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…
Indo-American relations prior to 1947--Indian independence in 1947--Non-Alignment and Cold War--The first Eisenhower administration--U.S.-Pakistan military alliance of 1954--SEATO--The Suez and the Hungarian crisis of 1956--The Sino-Soviet economic offensive on the third world--…
This dissertation analyzes the costly failure of the Reagan Administration's foreign policy in Lebanon during the period following the Israeli invasion of that country in June 1982. The particular emphasis is a case study of the events of the crisis, with concentration on policy…
The Caspian region is considered to be one of the next oil and gas frontiers. Along with the re-distribution of political power and the emergence of new balances after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the continuous waves of change also have had significant effects on the prosp…
Conflicts in Africa are destabilizing the continent, thus hampering any efforts to achieve sustainable development. Post-Cold War conflicts are mainly internal and result in mass migrations of refugees into neighboring states that are underdeveloped and politically unstable. In …
During the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), development became an essential part of the strategic vision of containment in the Middle East. In 1953, Eisenhower attempted to use a plan created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the United Nations c…
Over the course of the sixteenth century, the Spanish Habsburgs developed a diplomatic system in Italy which bound most of the independent Italian states to Spain, so that by 1559 only Venice and the Papal States remained truly independent from Spanish rule. To control these pot…
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…
The end of the Cold War and the dawn of the information age have been characterized by increasing communication and decreasing cooperation among different interest groups (ethnic, political, religious, etc.) around the world. Internal conflicts like the recent Bosnian and Rwanda…
This study seeks to explain the role and activities of the organized American Jewish community in the decision by the United States to enter into a diplomatic dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization. I argue that American Jewish support was essential for the success …
The establishment of the European External Action Service (EEAS) was the latest organisational innovation aimed at bridging the disjuncture between EU external relations and foreign policy structures. Almost immediately after its creation, it attracted wide-spread criticism of i…
President Ronald Reagan participated in more U.S.-Soviet summits than any previous U.S. president, as he met with his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, on four occasions between November 1985 and June 1988. Prior to, during, and following each meeting with Gorbachev, Reagan…
This thesis explores China's relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, from 1991 to 2005, contributing to the body of knowledge by arguing that China's relations with post-Soviet Central Asia were shaped by security and economic imperatives…