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Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. McKinney, Peter Harris US Army War College

Broken Nest: Deterring China From Invading Taiwan, Jared M. Mckinney, Peter Harris

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

Deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan without recklessly threatening a great-power war is both possible and necessary through a tailored deterrence package that goes beyond either fighting over Taiwan or abandoning it. This article joins cutting-edge understandings of deterrence with empirical evidence of Chinese strategic thinking and culture to build such a strategy.

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The Natural Person, Legal Entity Or Juridical Person And Juridical Personality, Elvia Arcelia Quintana Adriano Penn State Law

The Natural Person, Legal Entity Or Juridical Person And Juridical Personality, Elvia Arcelia Quintana Adriano

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs

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American Identity Crisis, 1789-1815: Foreign Affairs And The Formation Of American National Identity, George E. Best James Madison University

American Identity Crisis, 1789-1815: Foreign Affairs And The Formation Of American National Identity, George E. Best

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

When the Constitution was drafted in 1789, Americans did not have a sense of national identity. The process toward achieving a national identity was long and fraught with conflict. Some of the most influential events on the United States were foreign affairs. American reactions to these events reveal the gradual coalescence of national identity. The French Revolution was incredibly divisive and Americans defined their political views in relation to it. The wars spawned by it caused Great Britain and France to seize American ships believed to be carrying contraband. The American public took an active role in making its opinions …

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Russian Troops Captured At The Battle Of Tannenberg (August 1914), Western Michigan University

Russian Troops Captured At The Battle Of Tannenberg (August 1914)

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American Military Strategy In The Vietnam War, 1965– 1973, Gregory A. Daddis Chapman University

American Military Strategy In The Vietnam War, 1965– 1973, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

For nearly a decade, American combat soldiers fought in South Vietnam to help sustain an independent, noncommunist nation in Southeast Asia. After U.S. troops departed in 1973, the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 prompted a lasting search to explain the United States’ first lost war. Historians of the conflict and participants alike have since critiqued the ways in which civilian policymakers and uniformed leaders applied—some argued misapplied—military power that led to such an undesirable political outcome. While some claimed U.S. politicians failed to commit their nation’s full military might to a limited war, others contended that most officers fundamentally …

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The Russo-Japanese War: Origins And Implications, Benjamin E. Mainardi James Madison University

The Russo-Japanese War: Origins And Implications, Benjamin E. Mainardi

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

The 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the twentieth century and a turning point in the balance of power in East Asia. In the short term, Russia’s defeat helped precipitate the 1905 Russian Revolution and the 1917 October Revolution. More broadly, the aftermath of the war informed Japan’s imperial ambitions in Manchuria—the early stages of World War II in Asia during the 1930s—and continuing Russo-Japanese enmity over Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Island chain. Studying this historical conflict in terms of international relations provides valuable insights into the nature of the conflict and how the past continues …

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Un Sión Tropical: El General Trujillo, Franklin Roosevelt Y Los Judíos De Sosúa, Allen Wells, Natalia Sanz González (translator) Bowdoin College

Un Sión Tropical: El General Trujillo, Franklin Roosevelt Y Los Judíos De Sosúa, Allen Wells, Natalia Sanz González (Translator)

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Setecientos cincuenta refugiados judíos dejaron la Alemania nazi y fundaron la colonia agrícola de Sosúa en la República Dominicana, que en ese momento estaba bajo el régimen de uno de los dictadores más represivos de Latinoamérica, el general Rafael Trujillo. En este libro, Allen Wells, hijo de uno de los colonos de Sosúa, cuenta la historia del general Trujillo, Franklin Delano Roosevelt y los afortunados pioneros que fundaron, en la costa norte de la isla, una exitosa cooperativa de productos lácteos de propiedad de los mismos empleados.

¿Por qué el dictador admitió a esos desesperados refugiados cuando muy pocas naciones …

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African Colonial States, Heather J. Sharkey University of Pennsylvania

African Colonial States, Heather J. Sharkey

Departmental Papers (NELC)

This chapter sketches a history of European colonial states in Africa, north and south of the Sahara, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains when and why colonial states emerged, what they did, how they worked, and who shaped them. Noting discrepancies between the theory and practice of colonial administration, the chapter shows that colonial administration was far more diffuse and less closely coordinated than official discourses of governance suggested. The performance of colonialism involved a wide range of actors: not only European military and civilian elites and African chiefs, but also African translators and tax collectors, as well …

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British Appeasement 1936-1939: The Debate Between Parliament And The Public, Kylie D. Johnson College of Liberal Arts- History and Political Science

British Appeasement 1936-1939: The Debate Between Parliament And The Public, Kylie D. Johnson

Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards

While it is now clear that appeasement of Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler did not prevent another war, there is a historical debate on whether British appeasement policies were shameful, a set of well-intentioned blunders, an attempt at keeping peace internationally, or a strategy to keep domestic resources focused on Britain. Within the debate between historians, lies a debate between the British public and Parliament, and even within Parliament itself. An important factor in the British decision to implement appeasement policy in the 1930s often underemphasized in the literature is the governmental prioritizing of domestic issues and national security over …

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The Successes And Failures Of The Battle Of Mogadishu And Its Effects On U.S. Foreign Policy, Philip B. Dotson Cedarville University

The Successes And Failures Of The Battle Of Mogadishu And Its Effects On U.S. Foreign Policy, Philip B. Dotson

Channels: Where Disciplines Meet

The Battle of Mogadishu, more commonly referred to as “Black Hawk Down,” was one of the most controversial conflicts in the second half of the twentieth century. It left a lingering question in people’s minds: was it a success or a failure? While certainly there were many failures and casualties throughout the mission, based on a military definition, it was a clear cut success; Task Force Ranger (TFR) accomplished the objective of the mission, despite significant losses, by retrieving the two targets assigned them. Both the failures and successes of the mission, as well as the overarching Operation Restore Hope …

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The Dixie Mission, Patrick J. Hurley, And America's Diplomatic Failure In China, 1944-45, Sarah Moody 2022 University of Washington Tacoma

The Dixie Mission, Patrick J. Hurley, And America's Diplomatic Failure In China, 1944-45, Sarah Moody

History Undergraduate Theses

This paper examines the American diplomatic effort in China in 1944-45 including the attempts at military coordination with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government as well as the "Dixie Mission," which was the first official American contact with the Chinese Communist Party. I argue that the personalities of the American diplomats, the structural issues endemic to the China-Burma-India Theater, the fractured and complex Chinese political situation, and the lack of clear and rational foreign policy on China all culminated in the diplomatic efforts failing. While acknowledging the numerous contributing factors that led to diplomatic failure, this paper also suggests ways in which …

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A United Failure: The Failure Of The United Nations, United States, And Global Community In Preventing And Responding To The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Josh Ratsch 2022 Murray State University

A United Failure: The Failure Of The United Nations, United States, And Global Community In Preventing And Responding To The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Josh Ratsch

Honors College Theses

The Rwandan Genocide represents a glaring failure of the global community to provide humanitarian protection to targets of ethnic violence and slaughter. The complete indifference displayed by the United Nations provided extremist Hutu leaders with an environment for killing without a threat of foreign intervention. Calls by the leader of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), Roméo Dallaire to reinforce the mission both before and during the slaughter fell upon deaf ears as UN leaders attempted to justify their inaction. Accounts from Rwandan representatives, who at the start of the genocide held a position on the UN Security …

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U.S. Hegemonic Control In Latin America: The 1973 Coup In Chile, Seth Wilbur 2022 University of New Orleans

U.S. Hegemonic Control In Latin America: The 1973 Coup In Chile, Seth Wilbur

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

On September 11, 1973, the Chilean armed forces staged a coup d’état against their democratically elected and first socialist president, Salvador Allende. The coup ended in Allende’s death and seventeen years of military dictatorship under the auspices of General Augusto Pinochet. Although seemingly a domestic affair, the United States executive branch under the leadership of President Richard Nixon played a significant role in facilitating the coup and it is unlikely the coup would have occurred without U.S. support. While contemporary sources still point to American fears over communist incursion in the western hemisphere as the principal reason for U.S. involvement …

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“An Exercise In International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” And Nixon’S 1969 War On Drugs, Justin M. Reid 2022 Chapman University

“An Exercise In International Extortion”: Operation “Intercept” And Nixon’S 1969 War On Drugs, Justin M. Reid

War and Society (MA) Theses

When the former senator and vice president assumed the Oval Office in January 1969, President Richard M. Nixon inherited a nation in crisis with drugs playing a central role. At a campaign stop a few months earlier, Nixon announced to a packed convention center in Anaheim, CA, that if elected president he would end the flow of the illicit drugs coming into the United States “decimating a generation of young Americans.”

True to his word, Nixon moved aggressively after his election victory to refocus the federal drug enforcement bureaucracy on drug source control, blaming Mexico as the main culprit. On …

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The Papua Conflict: The Different Perspectives Of The Indonesian Government And International Communities—Review From The English School Theory, Mohamad Rosyidin, Andi Akhmad Basith Dir, Fendy Eko Wahyudi 2022 Department of International Relations, Universitas Diponegoro

The Papua Conflict: The Different Perspectives Of The Indonesian Government And International Communities—Review From The English School Theory, Mohamad Rosyidin, Andi Akhmad Basith Dir, Fendy Eko Wahyudi

Global: Jurnal Politik Internasional

The West Papuan issue has become a flashpoint of conflict between Indonesia and the international community. However, studies on this subject have never been concerned about the causal root of differences between Indonesia and the international community over the West Papuan issue. There has not been a theoretical account of how this issue is framed in international politics. Existing literature tends to overlook the fundamental narrative, that is, the contrasting view between Indonesia and those who support West Papuan freedom. This paper aims to analyse the root cause of this debate. Using the English School approach in international relations, this …

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Simeon Hart, The "Milmo Affair," And The Confederate Cotton Trade On The Rio Grande, 1861-65, Leonel Rodriguez 2022 Texas A&M International University

Simeon Hart, The "Milmo Affair," And The Confederate Cotton Trade On The Rio Grande, 1861-65, Leonel Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations

The cotton trade on the Rio Grande played a crucial role in the transnational history of Confederate-Mexican diplomacy as well as the history of the American Civil War and the Second French Intervention in Mexico. The renowned merchant from El Paso, Simeon Hart, was an important figure in the cotton trade since he helped facilitate diplomatic and commercial relations between Mexico and the Confederacy. Due to his reputation as an emissary and supplier for the Confederate Army of New Mexico, Hart was appointed quartermaster of the Trans-Mississippi Department. During the winter of 1863-64, the son-in-law of the Governor of Nuevo …

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Adm 36/9943 Muster Table Of Hm Armed Storeship Supply, Part 2, British Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Adm 36/9943 Muster Table Of Hm Armed Storeship Supply, Part 2, British Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

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Adm 36/9943. Muster Table Of Hm Armed Storeship Supply, Part 1, British Archives, Kew, JOhannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Adm 36/9943. Muster Table Of Hm Armed Storeship Supply, Part 1, British Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

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Letters From Captain Edward Le Cras, Adm 174-118, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Letters From Captain Edward Le Cras, Adm 174-118, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

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Muster Tables Dauphin Adm 52-1694, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Muster Tables Dauphin Adm 52-1694, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

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Muster Table Of The Dauphin Adm 36-9970, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Muster Table Of The Dauphin Adm 36-9970, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Ships Carrying Returning Germans, 1783

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Nmm Por/G/1, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Nmm Por/G/1, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

James Gambler Letters

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Nmm Por-F-16, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Nmm Por-F-16, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

James Gambler Letters

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Hms Emerald Muster Book, 1782, June, The National Archive, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Emerald Muster Book, 1782, June, The National Archive, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Garland Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9773, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Garland Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9773, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Nonsuch Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9756, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Nonsuch Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9756, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Quebec Muster Books, 1782-1783, Adm 36-9209, Part 2, The Natonal Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Quebec Muster Books, 1782-1783, Adm 36-9209, Part 2, The Natonal Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Quebec Muster Books 1782-1783, Adm 36-9209, Part 1, The National Archives, Kew 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Quebec Muster Books 1782-1783, Adm 36-9209, Part 1, The National Archives, Kew

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Solitaire Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9574, Part 2, The National Archive, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Hitorical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Solitaire Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9574, Part 2, The National Archive, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Hitorical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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Hms Lucifer Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9812, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association 2022 Kutztown University

Hms Lucifer Muster Book, 1783, Adm 36-9812, The National Archives, Kew, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association

Royal Navy Muster Tables 1783-1784

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