... provides anyone studying American politics with an accurate glimpse of American ideology, misperception and thought in the first half of the twentieth century. Even though this book is a collection of lectures where there is obvious subjectivity, Kennan successfully displays an objective view on the topics he discusses in the lecture. Kennan's lecture gives the reader a panoramic view and solid background of American ... due to his ability to look at the situation from every perspective, not just the American perspective. I believe Kennan attempting to be as unbiased as possible in thi...

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... Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to long-term research work preferential on the history of international migration and the foreigner policy in the 20th century and his work in the SED Rostock. The purpose of the book lto focus on themes ... that are rarely discussed - like the life of foreigners in the GDR-, and to deliver a more diverse view on ... the history of those years. The main limitation of this publication is that the documents concerning xenophobic aspects in ... a research project on the ''role of the socialistic developing countri...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... a sense of nationhood. As we can see from the beliefs of the American subcommittee, "the idea that indigenous political traditions or abilities might permit the Vietnamese to govern themselves in the postwar period was almost inconceivable," and this rested on "pervasive American assumptions of Vietnamese subservience and susceptibility to external control," (Bradley 89, 93). Mecklin proves this to be ... ] onto Asians their own values; [believing] the threat of steadily enlarged destruction [would] force them to seek a reasonable end to the war," (Hoopes 2). What was actually the ca...

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... attractive qualities and his remarkable profile of a Young Communist League member and a Law graduate from the Moscow State University, presented him as the most suitable Party Leader the USSR needs in order to optimize the unstable economic situation he inherited when heading the Communist Party. "With great power, comes great responsibility." 4 As noted, the present economic, social ... exposes corruption and abuses of power at a higher level, freedom of speech, end of discrimination based on political and religious beliefs, plurality of socialist parties, providing a larger choice et...

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... pressure or turn to communism as it offered a solution to their problems, the Truman Doctrine was introduced to offer help. It is important in causing the Cold War as it set the framework and foundation for the subsequent American policies as part of the containment policy to contain Soviet ... the Cold War as despite the other factors contributing to the start of the Cold War, Soviet aggression still holds a degree of responsibility in the start of the Cold War through the actions taken which greatly heightened the tensions between the superpowers. Soviet aggression was responsible fo...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... countries to guarantee the security of each one" and "Defence" as "defending from or resistance against attack" . From these definitions we can safely state that Collective Defence in its literally meaning is the principle of several countries guaranteeing the security of each other, against the attack from another. A more accurate definition for security study purposes can define ... beneficial to the local economy." Although the above instances relate to smaller state actors within a region benefiting from aligning themselves to larger states, these larger states can also benefit in the...

• Word Count: 1681
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate