... from 1949-1990 with a critical focus on the aspect of hostility to foreigners. It contains several chapters on anti-foreignism and devotes an extra chapter to the GDR. Its major value lies in giving new perspectives on anti-foreignism in Germany, a situation which was often unexamined and overlooked, and reflect of not yet evaluated primary source material. This is supported by the biography ... . To hide the weaknesses of their own regime from the public, they used workers only from other socialistic states to represent this as acts of solidarity towards less distinct states. For the Vi...

• Word Count: 1950
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... 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 thinking about themselves and the rest of the world ... 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 this lecture allows him to give anyone reading the book a good chance to develop their own argument, which is a good quality beca...

• Word Count: 1225
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... blind to the true reality of what was to come. The Americans later realized that what they had seen as weakness in the Vietnamese people was actually forming an ideological imperative that was impossible for them to crush. For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was clear that what constituted victory and defeat was not shared equally by ... far beyond the experience, and probably far beyond the emotional comprehension, of the Asian poor," and therefore it was more rewarding for the Vietnamese – or the peasants at least -- to die honorably for their own...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... teenage years. Archie Brown notes that "Gorbachev has the political will to make significant innovations in both Soviet domestic and foreign policy"1, and German biographer Christian Shmidt-Hauer states that "the new leader is ambitious for power- not power for its own sake, but power to improve his own society"2.3 Anyhow, his personal attractive qualities and his ... violent internal upheaval?6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... . Each of these mechanisms contribute to regional security via numerous methods depending on that particular security need for the region. Collective Defence, although dated as a security mechanism, can still be seen as contributing an important role in regional stability under the specific environment in which it is created and employed. Alternative security mechanisms, however, may provide a broader application to ... purposes can define Collective Defence as "an agreement between two or more states to work together on mutual security issues." A "Region" for our purposes can be simply...

• Word Count: 1681
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... communist 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 expansionism. However, other factors stemming from American intentions prior to the Truman ... distrust between the superpowers. The US had been the one which started carving out economic spheres in Europe, and this can be seen through their dollar diplomacy. In early 1946, the US imposed c...

• Word Count: 2144
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate