... 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 to the anti-colonist foundation of the United States, and brings to mind Patrick Henry's reflection of American sentiment in the American Revolution: "give me liberty or give ... me death!" If anything, the endurance of the Vietnamese strugg...

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... seeks to argue that Soviet aggression was responsible for the start of the Cold War as despite the other factors contributing to the start of the Cold War, Soviet aggression still holds a degree of responsibility in the start of the Cold War through the actions taken which greatly heightened the tensions between the superpowers. Soviet aggression was responsible for the start of the Cold War as the actions taken by the Soviet Union were offensive, based off their own economic ... their refusal to participate in the reconstruction of the global economy, marking the beginning of the econo...

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... of political events of the time. Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to long-term 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 include a lot of source ...

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... Democracy, provoked from below and should we consider the factor that the collapse of the regime and the transition was accomplished in a fairly peaceful atmosphere, in the absence of external invasion or violent internal upheaval?6 According to a study performed by David Kotz and Fred Weir, the party-state elite, or in other words the people who hold the governmental power have contributed the most for the collapse of the regime. A group called "Movement for Socialist Renewal ... , the outcome of the situation is inevitable. The "revolution" and the revaluation of ideas, leading to the ...

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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 to the conflict with the Soviets. As a result, Kennan ... ...

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... a threat to not just regional but world security as a whole. One factor that poses perhaps the biggest threat in undermining an alliance as long running as NATO, is the changing social, political and ideological considerations towards the purpose of the alliance. Since the collapse of the former Soviet Union marking the end of the Cold War in the late 1980's, NATO has come under increasing pressure to disband. NATO has also come under scrutiny ... in its military involvement in the recent former Yugoslavia conflict and in Afghanistan as operating outside its original jurisdiction and sc...

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