... people was secondary – if not a means to an end -- to global strategic considerations at the time, to which Mecklin added that "to communicate a sensitive understanding of the Asian masses to Americans, as well as other Westerners, [was] one of the greatest challenges of 20th century journalism," (4). The United States was mainly concerned with demonstrating a respect for Vietnamese sovereignty so as to preserve the righteous image of American intervention as "pro-self determination ... eventually committing genocide, thereby contradicting the purpose of their efforts to begin with...

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... party-state elite, or the intelligentsia, were people of high rank, who have "betrayed" the Socialist system and shifted their beliefs and commitment from one socio-economic formation to another one, or in other words from Communism to Capitalism. Some of the main points of Gorbachev's Glasnost and Perestroika have a key similarity with the proposals of the manifesto: an independent press that 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 ...

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Critiquing American Diplomacy George Kennan's American Diplomacy 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 ... felt they were above everyone else and how that helped fuel the situation with the Soviets. Instead of embracing other nations" differences and working together, America...

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... is obvious, that the state couldn't justify the agreements with economic motivations alone, because this would have put the whole 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 worker policy they pilloried as a continuation of the former National Socialism-foreign worker policy. But this contradiction ... between the real economic interests of the GDR having contract workers and their own propaganda of helping their socialist friend led to ... motivations. Behind the economic mot...

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... post-Yalta Conference period in April 1945 when even Roosevelt, a perennial optimist, expressed his doubts about cooperating with Stalin. Hence, the Truman Doctrine was merely an articulation of the American policy and intentions expressed and declared in the open. The importance of the Truman Doctrine is further limited when considering the fact that this public declaration was presented in such a ... further in Europe and threaten the security and democratic ideology of the US. Hence, seeing how Soviet actions which constituted aggression had directly challenged the US and caused the U...

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... security issues." A "Region" for our purposes can be simply defined "as a set of states, which are located in geographical proximity to one another." However, this does not imply that the state actors within a region have to align themselves with their neighbours to form a Collective Defence agreement. The ANZUS treat provides us with an example of this, with Australia and New Zealand located in a geographical region and the United States ... negative effect Collective Defence mechanisms can have within regional security is that not all Alliances are created with the intention to mainta...

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