... , so working abroad seemed to be the only solution to the Vietnamese government. Likewise these workers were seen as an important source of income for the state, because on the one hand they had to send a part of their income back home and on the other hand the state also received further payments from the GDR, which also influenced the cooperation ... 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 to the GDR. Its major value lies in giving new pers...

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... gone in the rural areas, much less of patriotism," (Mecklin 3). Nonetheless, Mecklin also observed "the Vietnamese peasant was intensely aware of basic human relationships," and "thus remained unswayed by fancy, one-shot American aid gestures," (Mecklin 4). What we can surmise from this was that sympathy for the Vietnamese 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 greates...

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... for the start of the Cold War, as these actions led to Soviet reactions which greatly caused much unhappiness and mutual 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 conditions of dropping trade barriers in Eastern ... ...

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... it if the light we use is but a paltry and narrow taper, most objects will cast a shadow wider than themselves." Kennan adds that if "Conversely, if our taper is a strong one we may be sure that its rays will penetrate to the Russian room and eventually play their part is dissipating the gloom which prevails there." Kennan's positive attitude not only ... ...

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... , the 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 ... ...

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... within regions over the last two centuries. The Oxford Dictionary defines "Collective Security" as a "policy or principle of the alliance of several countries to guarantee the security of each one" and "Defence" as "defending from or resistance against attack" . From these definitions we can safely state that Collective Defence in its literally meaning is the principle of several countries ... informal agreements/arrangements. Formal agreements may involve the states concerned signing treaties whereby signatories agree to provide military force if anyone of the signatories come under at...

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