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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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…
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…
This study seeks to describe and explain a pattern of U.S.-Middle East policy pertaining to the Arab-Israeli conflict that occurred in every Administration from the Truman through the Bush Administration. The hypothesis is that there is a cycle of policy. The cycle begins with c…
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 …