... the USA and other western industrial countries, the fundamental reason that young students from socialist countries attended college in foreign socialist countries was the endeavour the be trained in highly qualified jobs for their home countries, which they strongly felt related to due to their Asian mentality. Another example of solidarity support between ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1950
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). Through these sources, the Americans could reaffirm what they had already ... wanted to believe about the Vietnamese people – that they were an "inferior and imitative little China [with] backwards political development...[lacking] ... to the true reality ...

• Word Count: 849
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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 ... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1681
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The Gorbachev era – a period of time, which has been the reason for many controversial theories, raised debatable questions and still, more than 25 years after this time has passed, the consequences of Gorbachev's ruling are still pending under consideration. Accurate answers have not been provided, and if there are – they are strongly subjective and opinion-based. What are the reasons ... history by crossing out the Communist Regime, still remains undeniable. Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev is a product of a system that does not encourage radical innovations or reforms, nor open-to-democrac...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... 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 ... Soviet aggression refers to actions initiated or instigated by the Soviet Union which were deemed demanding; forcefully imposing demands on others. It was responsible for causing the start of the Cold War as the actions taken by the Soviet Union were offensive towards America, hence c...

• Word Count: 2144
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... to force his opinion on anyone. " our national consciousness is dominated at present by a sense of insecurity greater even than that of many people of Western Europe who stand closer to, and a position far more vulnerable to, those things that are the main source of our concern. ... this book remains to be popular fifty years later. His attempts to urge Americans and American diplomats to be open minded can easily become a universal rule in diplomacy because it is clearly evident in our world today that narrow minded diplomatic thought and behavior gets people nowhere and only leads to ...

• Word Count: 1225
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• Grade Level: Graduate