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Cold War Cosmopolitanism : Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
Christina Klein;Christina Klein
South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golde...
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Cold War Cosmopolitanism : Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema
2020
South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many “Golden Age cinemas” that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo, director of the era's most glamorous and popular women's pictures, including the blockbuster Madame Freedom (1956). Christina Klein provides a unique approach to the study of film style, illuminating how Han's films took shape within a “free world ” network of aesthetic and material ties created by the legacies of Japanese colonialism, the construction of US military bases, the waging of the cultural Cold War by the CIA, the forging of regional political alliances, and the import of popular cultures from around the world . Klein combines nuanced readings of Han's sophisticated style with careful attention to key issues of modernity—such as feminism, cosmopolitanism, and consumerism—in the first monograph devoted to this major Korean director. A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.
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Motion pictures--Social aspects--Korea - Motion pictures--Korea--History--20th century - Motion picture producers and directors--Korea (South)Content provider:
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The Cold War : Historiography, Memory, Representation
Konrad H. Jarausch;Christian Ostermann;Andreas Etges;Konrad H. Jarausch;Chr...
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It i...
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The Cold War : Historiography, Memory, Representation
2017
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world . It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There are historical and political controversies, both nationally and internationally, about how the history of the Cold War should be told and taught, how it should be represented and remembered. While much has been written about the political history of the Cold War, the analysis of its memory and representation is just beginning. Bringing together a wide range of scholars, this volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective. That innovative approach focuses on master narratives of the Cold War, places of memory, public and private memorialization, popular culture, and schoolbooks. Due to its unique status as a center of Cold War confrontation and competition, Cold War memory in Berlin receives a special emphasis. With the friendly support of the Wilson Center.
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Cold War in literature - Memory--Social aspects--United States - Cold War in motion pictures - Cold War in popular culture - Cold War--Social aspects--Europe - Cold War--Historiography - Cold War--Social aspects--United States - Memory--Social aspects--Europe - Memory--Social aspects--Germany--BerlinContent provider:
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Perilous Partners : The Benefits and Pitfalls of America's Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes
Ted Galen Carpenter;Malou Innocent;Ted Galen Carpenter;Malou Innocent
American leaders have cooperated with regimes around the world that are, to varying de...
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Perilous Partners : The Benefits and Pitfalls of America's Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes
2015
American leaders have cooperated with regimes around the world that are, to varying degrees, repressive or corrupt. Such cooperation is said to serve the national interest. But these partnerships also contravene the nation's commitments to democratic governance, civil liberties, and free markets. During the Cold War, policymakers were casual about sacrificing important values for less-than-compelling strategic rationales. Since the 9/11 attacks, similar ethical compromises have taken place, although policymakers now seem more selective than their Cold War–era counterparts. Americans want a foreign policy that pursues national interests while observing American values. How might that reconciliation of interest and morality be accomplished? In Perilous Partners, authors Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent provide a strategy for resolving the ethical dilemmas between interests and values faced by Washington. They propose maintaining an arm's-length relationship with authoritarian regimes, emphasizing that the United States must not operate internationally in ways that routinely pollute American values. It is a strategy based on ethical pragmatism, which is the best way to reconcile America's strategic interests and its fundamental values. Perilous Partners creates a strategy for conducting an effective U.S. foreign policy without betraying fundamental American values.
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The Teen‐Age Program: The expansion of a US government experiment in international education from postwar Germany and Austria to the early Cold War world .
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Peace & Change. Apr2023, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p132-151. 20p.
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Fett, Anna
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The Teen‐Age Program: The expansion of a US government experiment in international education from postwar Germany and Austria to the early Cold War world .
Peace & Change. Apr2023, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p132-151. 20p.
This article examines the Teen‐Age Program, an international academic exchange program for high‐school‐age students established by the US government in 1949. Relying on dominant American child development theories, the officials who designed this program believed that all secondary school students, anywhere in the world , underwent the same critical period of psychological development during their acutely malleable teen years. They also claimed that all high school‐age students required adequate parental supervision to ensure that they developed well‐adjusted "democratic" personalities during this intense transitional phase from childhood to adulthood. Fearing the influence of what were considered to be authoritarian childrearing practices on secondary students in postwar occupied Germany and Austria, planners designed this exchange program to give select German and Austrian teenagers a chance to experience the American way of democratic living for themselves, by letting American sponsor parents raise these foreign young people as members of their own families for a full academic year. Believing the program was a success by the mid‐1950s, planners decided to expand it to target other secondary school students from world regions of geopolitical interest in the fight against Soviet Communism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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EDUCATIONAL exchanges - GLOBAL studies - SECONDARY school students - CHILD development - COMMUNISMContent provider:
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Agent Orange : History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
Edwin A. Martini;Edwin A. Martini
Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called'the last ghost of the Vietnam War,'th...
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Agent Orange : History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty
2012
Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called'the last ghost of the Vietnam War,'this book examines the far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces in Southeast Asia. Edwin A. Martini's aim is not simply to reconstruct the history of the'chemical war'but to investigate the ongoing controversy over the short- and long-term effects of weaponized defoliants on the environment of Vietnam, on the civilian population, and on the troops who fought on both sides. Beginning in the early 1960s, when Agent Orange was first deployed in Vietnam, Martini follows the story across geographical and disciplinary boundaries, looking for answers to a host of still unresolved questions. What did chemical manufacturers and American policymakers know about the effects of dioxin on human beings, and when did they know it? How much do scientists and doctors know even today? Should the use of Agent Orange be considered a form of chemical warfare? What can, and should, be done for U.S. veterans, Vietnamese victims, and others around the world who believe they have medical problems caused by Agent Orange?Martini draws on military records, government reports, scientific research , visits to contaminated sites, and interviews to disentangle conflicting claims and evaluate often ambiguous evidence. He shows that the impact of Agent Orange has been global in its reach affecting individuals and communities in New Zealand, Australia, Korea, and Canada as well as Vietnam and the United States . Yet for all the answers it provides, this book also reveals how much uncertainty -- scientific, medical, legal, and political -- continues to surround the legacy of Agent Orange.
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Agent Orange--War use - Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Chemical warfare - Agent Orange--Toxicology - Veterans--Diseases--Australia - Veterans--Diseases--United States - Agent Orange--Environmental aspectsContent provider:
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
Melani Budianta;Manneke Budiman;Abidin Kusno;Mikihiro Moriyama;Melani Budia...
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World : Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Arts and Humanities
2020
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and area studies. Asia and the Pacifi c are the particular regions that the conference focuses on as they have become new centers of knowledge production in arts and humanities and, in the future, seem to be able to grow signifi cantly as a major contributor of culture, science and arts to the globalized world . The book will help shed light on what arts and humanities scholars in Asia and the Pacifi c have done in terms of research and knowledge development, as well as the new frontiers of research that have been explored and opening up, which can connect the two regions with the rest of the globe.
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Humanities--Congresses - Globalization--Congresses - Arts and society--CongressesContent provider:
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Awkward Alliances. Modernisation Theory and United States Foreign Policy Towards Franco's Spain in the 1960s.
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Diplomacy & Statecraft. Dec 2021, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p720-742. 23p.
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Martín García, Óscar J.
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Awkward Alliances. Modernisation Theory and United States Foreign Policy Towards Franco's Spain in the 1960s.
Diplomacy & Statecraft. Dec 2021, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p720-742. 23p.
A body of literature on Cold War international history has studied the influence of modernisation theory in United States foreign relations with its authoritarian allies in the Third World during the 1950s and 1960s. However, this area of research has been much less interested in those Washington-friendlydictatorships that, as in the case of Francisco Franco's regime in Spain, do not fit into the Third World analytical framework. This analysis assesses the contribution of modernisations doctrine principles to American foreign policy towards the Spanish dictatorship in the 1960s and considers how this theory provided the conceptual tools to justify the American collaboration with the Franco regime in the name of development, security, and long-term democratisation. It examines the role of modernisation as, on one hand, an interpretative framework for Spain's economic and social evolution during that decade and, on the other, an instument of political legitimisation serving American strategic interests. In this way, this work sheds light on the ideological and intellectual underpinnings of the American alliance with the Franco dictatorship in a period of great challenges and transformations in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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FRANCO, Francisco, 1892-1975 - INTERNATIONAL relations - DEVELOPING countries - NINETEEN sixties - SOCIAL evolution - COLD War, 1945-1991 - SPAINContent provider:
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Masha Salazkina;Masha Salazkina
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2023; Vol. 00004
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this capacious transnational film history, renowned scholar Masha Salazkina proposes a groundbreaking new framework for understanding the cinematic cultures of twentieth-century socialism. Taking as a point of departure the vast body of work screened at the Tashkent International Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, World Socialist Cinema maps the circulation of films between the Soviet Bloc and the countries of the Global South in the mid- to late twentieth century, illustrating the distribution networks, festival circuits, and informal channels that facilitated this international network of artistic and intellectual exchange. Building on decades of meticulous archival work, this long-anticipated film history unsettles familiar stories to provide an alternative to Eurocentric, national, and regional narratives, rooted outside of the capitalist West.
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Film festivals--Uzbekistan--Tashkent - Socialism and motion pictures--Latin America--20th century - Socialism and motion pictures--Africa--20th century - Socialism and motion pictures--Asia--20th centuryContent provider:
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Living in a Nuclear World : From Fukushima to Hiroshima
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent;Soraya Boudia;Kyoko Sato;Bernadette Bensaude-Vi...
The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has sh...
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Living in a Nuclear World : From Fukushima to Hiroshima
2022
The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly affected world history and geopolitics, as well as our daily life and natural world . It has always been an instrument for national security, a marker of national sovereignty, a site of technological innovation and a promise of energy abundance. It has also introduced permanent pollution and the age of the Anthropocene. This volume presents a new perspective on nuclear history and politics by focusing on four interconnected themes–violence and survival; control and containment; normalizing through denial and presumptions; memories and futures–and exploring their relationships and consequences. It proposes an original reflection on nuclear technology from a long-term, comparative and transnational perspective. It brings together contributions from researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, history, STS) and countries (US, France, Japan) on a variety of local, national and transnational subjects. Finally, this book offers an important and valuable insight into other global and Anthropocene challenges such as climate change.
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Energy policy--Forecasting - Nuclear weapons--History - Nuclear energy--History - Nuclear accidents--History - Nuclear engineering--Social aspects - Nuclear weapons--Social aspects - Nuclear energy--Political aspectsContent provider:
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Under the Radar : Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
R. Eugene Parta;R. Eugene Parta
Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new tec...
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Under the Radar : Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union
2022
Western democracy is currently under attack by a resurgent Russia, weaponizing new technologies and social media. How to respond? During the Cold War, the West fought off similar Soviet propaganda assaults with shortwave radio broadcasts. Founded in 1949, the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast uncensored information to the Soviet republics in their own languages. About one-third of Soviet urban adults listened to Western radio. The broadcasts played a key role in ending the Cold War and eroding the communist empire. R. Eugene Parta was for many years the director of Soviet Area Audience Research at RFE/RL, charged among others with gathering listener feedback. In this book he relates a remarkable Cold War operation to assess the impact of Western radio broadcasts on Soviet listeners by using a novel survey research approach. Given the impossibility of interviewing Soviet citizens in their own country, it pioneered audacious interview methods in order to fly under the radar and talk to Soviets traveling abroad, ultimately creating a database of 51,000 interviews which offered unparalleled insights into the media habits and mindset of the Soviet public. By recounting how the “impossible” mission was carried out, Under the Radar also shows how the lessons of the past can help counter the threat from a once and current adversary.
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Radio broadcasting--Soviet Union - Radio audiences--Soviet Union - Cold WarContent provider:
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Health and Development
Iris Borowy;Bernard Harris;Iris Borowy;Bernard Harris
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a crit...
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Health and Development
2023; Vol. 00002
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested. This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.
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Public health--Developing countriesContent provider:
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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : The Influence of Smaller Powers
Laurien Crump;Susanna Erlandsson;Laurien Crump;Susanna Erlandsson
The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the sh...
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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe : The Influence of Smaller Powers
2020
The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers – East–West, neutral and non-aligned – and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.
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Middle powers - States, Small - International relations--History--20th century - Cold War - World politics--1945-1989Content provider:
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Globalizing the Library : Librarians and Development Work, 1945–1970
Amanda Laugesen;Amanda Laugesen
Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in...
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Globalizing the Library : Librarians and Development Work, 1945–1970
2019
Globalizing the Library focuses on the globalization of information and the library in the period following the Second World War. Providing an examination of the ideas and aspirations surrounding information and the library, as well as the actual practices and actions of information professionals from the United States , Britain, and those working with organizations such as Unesco to develop library services , this book tells an important story about international history that also provides insight into the history of information , globalization, and cultural relations. Exploring efforts to help build library services and train a cohort of professional librarians around the globe, the book examines countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific during the period of the Cold War and decolonization. Using the ideas of ‘library diplomacy'and ‘library imperialism'to frame Anglo-American involvement in this work, Laugesen examines the impact library development work had on various countries. The book also considers what might have motivated nations in the global South to use foreign aid to help develop their library services and information infrastructure. Globalizing the Library prompts reflection on the way in which library services are developed and the way professional knowledge is transferred, while also illuminating the power structures that have shaped global information infrastructures. As a result, the book should be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of libraries, development, and information . It should also be of great interest to information professionals and information historians who are reflecting critically on the way information has been transferred, consumed, and shaped in the modern world .
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International librarianship--History--20th century - Library science--Developing countries--History--20th century - Libraries--Developing countries--History--20th century - Libraries--Political aspectsContent provider:
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
David H. Price;David H. Price
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound ...
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
2016
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America's Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era.
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Science and state--United States--History--20th century - Cold War - Anthropology--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century - Anthropologists--Political activity--United States--History--20th century - Military intelligence--United States--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Beyond Boycotts : Sport During the Cold War in Europe
Philippe Vonnard;Nicola Sbetti;Grégory Quin;Philippe Vonnard;Nicola Sbetti;...
Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars ha...
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Beyond Boycotts : Sport During the Cold War in Europe
2018; Vol. 00001
Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of'soft power'during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events'beyond boycotts'many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States , but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an'apolitic'field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs. Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.
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Cold War--Social aspects--Europe--Congresses - Cold War--Political aspects--Europe--Congresses - Sports--Europe--History--20th century--Congresses - Sports--Political aspects--Europe--History--20th century--CongressesContent provider:
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Foreign Policy at the Periphery : The Shifting Margins of US International Relations Since World War II
Bevan Sewell;Maria Ryan;Bevan Sewell;Maria Ryan
As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced ...
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Foreign Policy at the Periphery : The Shifting Margins of US International Relations Since World War II
2017
As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determining the extent to which the United States was prepared to defend and support them. Superpowers and developing nations soon became inextricably linked and decolonizing states such as Vietnam, India, and Egypt assumed a central role in the ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. As the twentieth century came to an end, many of the challenges of the Cold War became even more complex as the Soviet Union collapsed and new threats arose.Featuring original essays by leading scholars, Foreign Policy at the Periphery examines relationships among new nations and the United States from the end of the Second World War through the global war on terror. Rather than reassessing familiar flashpoints of US foreign policy, the contributors explore neglected but significant developments such as the efforts of evangelical missionaries in the Congo, the 1958 stabilization agreement with Argentina, Henry Kissinger's policies toward Latin America during the 1970s, and the financing of terrorism in Libya via petrodollars. Blending new, internationalist approaches to diplomatic history with newly released archival materials, Foreign Policy at the Periphery brings together diverse strands of scholarship to address compelling issues in modern world history.
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Propagandized Adversary Populations in a War of Ideas.
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Journal of Advanced Military Studies (JAMS). Spring2021, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p128-148. 21p.
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Bishop, Donald M.
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Journal of Advanced Military Studies (JAMS). Spring2021, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p128-148. 21p.
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Disinformation, the disruptive effects of social media, and the prospect of informatio...
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Propagandized Adversary Populations in a War of Ideas.
Journal of Advanced Military Studies (JAMS). Spring2021, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p128-148. 21p.
Disinformation, the disruptive effects of social media, and the prospect of information warfare increasingly preoccupy national security thinkers. In the twentieth century, years of prewar and wartime propaganda by the Axis powers and the Soviet Union made the World Wars and the Cold War longer and more costly. In this century, China and North Korea represent two nations that have propagandized their populations for 70 years, hardening them against informational initiatives. What are the lessons? How should the United States assemble a strategy to counter propaganda's effects? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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PROPAGANDA - POLITICAL psychology - DIPLOMACY - COLD War, 1945-1991 - INFORMATION warfareContent provider:
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Art Beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989)
Jérôme Bazin;Pascal Dubourg Glatigny;Piotr Piotrowski;Jérôme Bazin;Pascal D...
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and ...
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Art Beyond Borders : Artistic Exchange in Communist Europe (1945-1989)
2016; Vol. volume III
This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe's avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists'strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.
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Art and society--Communist countries - Art--Communist countries--Foreign influences--20th century - Cultural relations--History--20th century - Art, European--20th centuryContent provider:
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Swanee Hunt;Swanee Hunt
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the vo...
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2011
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International relations - Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Campaigns--Bosnia and Herzegovina--SrebrenicaContent provider:
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The Subject(s) of Human Rights : Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials;Guy Beauregard;Hsiu-chuan Lee;Cathy J. Schlund-Vials...
Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese ...
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The Subject(s) of Human Rights : Crises, Violations, and Asian/American Critique
2020
Human rights violations have always been part of Asian American studies. From Chinese immigration restrictions, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, yellow peril characterizations, and recent acts of deportation and Islamophobia, Asian Americans have consistently functioned as subordinated “subjects” of human rights violations. The Subject(s) of Human Rights brings together scholars from North America and Asia to recalibrate these human rights concerns from both sides of the Pacific. The essays in this collection provide a sharper understanding of how Asian/Americans have been subjected to human rights violations, how they act as subjects of history and agents of change, and how they produce knowledge around such subjects. The editors of and contributors to The Subject(s) of Human Rights examine refugee narratives, human trafficking, and citizenship issues in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. These themes further refract issues of American war-making, settler colonialism, military occupation, collateral damage, and displacement that relocate the imagined geographies of Asian America from the periphery to the center of human rights critique.
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Asian Americans--Social conditions - Asians--Social conditions - Human rights--North America - Human rights in literature - Human rights--Asia - Asian Americans--Study and teachingContent provider:
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The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism
Nina Witoszek;Nina Witoszek
This book discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of ...
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The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism
2019; Vol. 00044
This book discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of ‘humanist outliers': small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. It argues that anti-authoritarian revolutions like 1989's ‘Autumn of the Nations'succeeded in large part due to cultural and political innovations springing from such small groups. The author explores the often ingenious ways in which these maladapted and liminal ‘outliers'forged a cooperative and dialogic mindset among previously resentful and divided communities. Their strategies warrant closer scrutiny in the context of the ongoing 21st century revolution of dignity and efforts to (re)unite an ever more troubled and divided world . The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Authoritarianism--Europe, Central--History--20th century - Revolutions--Europe, Central--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Great Lives From History : American Women
Trigg, Mary K.;Trigg, Mary K.
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial ti...
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Great Lives From History : American Women
2016
Great Lives from History: American Women covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present offering a fascinating perspective on important women from U.S. history.
