... 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 the GDR do not ... regime in an unflattering light, so they had to find more ideological demands, most of all to dissociate themselves from the Western Germany, whose guest...

• Word Count: 1950
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... poor," and therefore it was more rewarding for the Vietnamese – or the peasants at least -- to die honorably for their own cause, since all they could conceive of in life was their social ties. Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering [as ... ] an instrument for exploiting a basic weakness of the Christian West," (Hoopes 2). The lesson the Americans learned was that this ... ...

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... this can be seen through their dollar diplomacy. In early 1946, the US imposed conditions of dropping trade barriers in Eastern Europe and compensation for the US assets seized in Romania and Bulgaria which led to much Soviet dissatisfaction and anger, causing all negotiations to end in June 1946. The conditions that the US wanted to impose on the USSR's loan request were seen as a threat to ... the communist ideology due to the term of opening up markets. It caused the USSR to boycott the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, signaling their refusal to participate in the reco...

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... at the top for more than five decades, outlived the Second World War, and has been the Motherland to more than half of Europe? Some track the roots of the demise of the Soviet System back to its earliest rise, at its conception as a political ideology, while some throw the blame merely on the decisions of Gorbachev. Were the capitalists right by labeling the Soviet ... System as unviable and had predicted its collapse due to economic contradictions, or was it the strongly oppressed population, demanding ... roots in almost every aspect eligible for consideration – the nation, the eco...

• Word Count: 1300
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... 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 thinking about themselves and ... the rest of the world, with respect to events leading up to the conflict with the Soviets. As a result, Kennan gives a clearly articulated picture of his thoughts. ... a g...

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... military force if anyone of the signatories come under attack. An attack on one signatory is considered an attack on all signatories. The most well known example of a formal agreement under a Collective Defence arrangement would be the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Informal agreements comprise of a much less unofficial understanding between states on their security arrangements. These agreements may only rely on the word of the other states and may ... only involve the respective states conducting such operations ... ...

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