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Soft Power And Polite Propaganda: Public Diplomacy In The Early Cold War, Coby Aloi
Soft Power And Polite Propaganda: Public Diplomacy In The Early Cold War, Coby Aloi
Departmental Honors Projects
In the Aftermath of the Second World War, the United States and The USSR stood as the only true superpowers. Both states held their own spheres of influence, with interests in spreading that influence. With the fear of nuclear war and the still looming shadow of global conflict, a new brand of diplomacy began to take hold as the preferred method of international relations between adversarial states. Soft power was beginning to become an influential means to accomplishing the goal of nations abroad.
The careful curation of print media, literature, and informational campaigns became an important element to how the …
Verbatim: Henry Kissinger, The Yom Kippur War, And The Legacy Of The United States In The Modern Middle East, Nathaniel Schumer
Verbatim: Henry Kissinger, The Yom Kippur War, And The Legacy Of The United States In The Modern Middle East, Nathaniel Schumer
Departmental Honors Projects
Henry Kissinger deeply influenced the foreign policy of the United States for much of the latter half of the Twentieth Century. This was especially true during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. On October 6, Egypt and Syria launched a combined invasion of Israel that caught Israel by surprise. As Secretary of State, Kissinger was heavily involved before the conflict in talking to Egypt, Syria, Israel, the Soviet Union and others to prevent the conflict. After the fighting started, Kissinger continued to leverage United States influence to end the conflict and advance the United States’ interests. His influence was even …
The Possibility Of Peace: Israeli Public Opinion And The Camp David Accords, Daniel L. Gerdes
The Possibility Of Peace: Israeli Public Opinion And The Camp David Accords, Daniel L. Gerdes
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The Camp David Accords, September 5-17, 1978, were a momentous development in Middle East relations. For over 30 years Israel and her neighbors weathered periods of warfare and aggression, but when leaders from Egypt, Israel, and the United States descended on Camp David in the United States for two weeks of peace negotiations everything changed. Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin became the first leaders in the Middle East to negotiate peace after decades of war between the two countries. This research discerns the changes in Israeli public opinion on the peace process with Egypt that …