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The Truman Administration, Israel, And Containment In The Middle East 1945-1952, Leslie Tarbutton

History Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines United States policy towards Israel from 1948 to 1952 to determine the extent to which the support given to Israel during the Truman administration reflected the major United States policy goal in the Middle East, the containment of the Soviet Union.

Sources used in this thesis include: archival material; printed collections of documents; memoirs; and secondary sources.

The Truman administration pursued containment in the Middle East by cooperating with Great Britain to improve the economic and military well-being of the Arab states so they could resist any Soviet attempts to dominate the region. However, domestic political pressure …

Franco-American Relations And The Emergence Of French Nuclear Armament, 1939-1962, Regis Hugues Philippon

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

France and the United States stand out as two major pioneer countries in the development of nuclear science. It was logical for France to join the nuclear club. But due to the extended responsibilities such an option implies, a lengthy difference of opinion developed between France and the United States. The former asserted its rights and its worldwide influence heedless of the decolonization process. The latter, heavily committed to the Western defense and its global interests, opposed the development of a strike force that it could not control. This disagreement led France to make specific reservations toward decision-making of the …

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: Mao Zedong's Quest For Revolutionary Immortality, Ronald R. Mcleod

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Lights, Cameras, Quorum Call: A Legislative History Of Senate Television, Christopher John Maloney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Impact Of The Military On Peru's Predemocritization, Michael Francis Plichta

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Fundamentalist Fervor: The Political Activism Of America's Protestant Fundamentalists, Lori Taylor Crawford

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Quiet Diplomacy: President Eisenhower And Dien Bien Phu, William Stuart Maddox

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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John Rawls, The Conception Of A Liberal Self, And The Communitarian Critique, Johnathan Edward Mansfield

Dissertations and Theses

John Rawls' A Theory of Justice stands as the single most important work in the Anglo-American liberal tradition after World War II. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls revives the social contract doctrine in order to determine principles of justice that would be chosen by persons who are free and equal moral individuals. Since Rawls believes that no single conception of the good can establish justice in a pluralistic society, he posits a set of principles of right which are prior to any particular good. Thus his theory, which he calls "justice as fairness," is deontological. Since its publication in …

"The Most Proper And Convenient Place": The Debate Over North Carolina's Seat Of Government, 1676-1791, Alan Ray Stokes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Filling The Political Vacuum: The United States And Germany, 1944-1946, Stephen Haynes Lewis

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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