... the cooperation between both states. Evaluation of Sources Zwischen Nationalismus und Internationalismus – Über Ausländer und Ausländerpolitik in der DDR 1949-1990, compiled by Eva-Maria and Lothar Elsner in 1994, is a synopsis of reports and official documents on foreigners and foreigner policy in the GDR 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 ... of political events of the time. Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to l...

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... ]" and that by being the formidably stronger opponent, the Americans confronted the strategy of the weak, or, in other words, made the Vietnamese more fervent underdogs. Because of this, there was no way the Americans could ever win the war without eventually committing genocide, thereby contradicting the purpose of their efforts to begin with. The efforts of the Vietnamese people against the United States demonstrated how misguided American perceptions were about the strength of ideological resolve and the social organization of ... Vietnamese culture. This was also largely paradoxical...

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... did not observe the deadline of March 1946 for the withdrawal of their troops from Iran, the US immediately responded and took the issue to the United Nations (UN), and the Soviets evacuated by May 1946. These actions had directly infringed on the rights of Iran and the US saw it as an act of Soviet expansionism, which meant that the ideology of communism could effectively be spread further in Europe and threaten the security and democratic ideology of the US. Hence ... mutual understanding to happen between the two superpowers. In the case of Greece, the Greek Civil War and the involve...

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... 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 thinking about themselves and the rest of the world, with respect to events leading up ... that carried over to World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He points out that the American ...

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... concessions, financial aid or low interest lows. An interesting illustration of this point may arise between partners of the "Coalition of the Willing", namely Australia and the United States during the "Free Trade Agreement" talks between the two nations in the near future. Although no official financial concessions were promised at the time the was Coalition created, it may have been on the implied understanding that for Australia to commit military resources to ... Defence mechanisms are, however, not without their limitations within region security. As witnessed during the post Worl...

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... , the outcome of the situation is inevitable. The "revolution" and the revaluation of ideas, leading to the collapse of the USSR, officially in 1991, were formed from "above". Whether the bourgeois results of Glasnost or Perestroika unleashed this sudden process of shifting towards Capitalism, the fact that the Soviet Union crashed immediately after the introduction of the market reforms, speaks about a weakening and leakage of the socialist ideology within the core of the ruling party. Some argue that the failure of Perestroika ... was just a happenstance of unpropitious conditions and ...

• Word Count: 1300
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