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Problem being studied and its resulting thesis: European factors such as labor demand, wars, the stereotypes of African peoples, and grand slave insurrections in the West are often used to explain the high influxes and paucities of captives coming from Africa. Using Grenada as a…

This dissertation compared the decisionmaking behind three military interventions during the 1980s: Grenada in October 1983 (Urgent Fury); Libya in April 1986 (El Dorado Canyon); and Panama in December 1989 (Just Cause). The author termed these actions "quick-strike" interventio…

This dissertation examines the impact of the spectrum of debate in Washington on the spectrum of debate in the news in cases of American military intervention in the post-Vietnam era. If there is conflict in Washington, critical viewpoints are easy to find in the news. If there …

Following an introductory chapter, effects of the multifaceted character of the Caribbean on the formation of the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship were examined. In chapter II, a study of the contextual setting included geography, colonial background, economy, culture and religion, …

For public opinion to have an effect on foreign policy, it must first enter into the political debate over policy. I classify issues according to how they are presented to the public, the key variables being crisis/non-crisis, the level of media salience, and whether elites agre…