Browsing by Subject "U.S. foreign policy"

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Brothers on the periphery : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chávez
(2018-06-19) Jarvis, Amanda Noel; Aghaie, Kamran Scot
After more than decade of official disuse, the Trump Administration revived the phrase “Rogue State” in 2017, coinciding with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s return to the political stage in the Islamic Republic of Iran as he suggested his candidacy in the state’s 2021 Presidential election. This shift in U.S. foreign policy and the return of a “rogue” actor require examination of the literature surrounding the “Rogue State” and the subsequent “Axis of Evil.” This paper specifically examines the relationship between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the late Hugo Chávez and its treatment in academia. This work finds that authors focused on outlying statements that presented the pair’s relationship as an ill-matched alliance of convenience built off of shared anti-American sentiments. I argue the pair’s perception as being located in the world’s economic periphery support a more nuanced understanding of their relationship that relies on Dependency Theory as a framework for Ahmadinejad’s and Chávez’s understanding of the world and their positions in it. Indeed, their speeches focus on international economic and power disparity far more than an unfounded antagonism towards the United States. Utilizing this perception and taking advantage of the recession of 2008, the two attempted to form an international coalition of developing states to better negotiate their positions in trade and development projects. I believe focusing on their material concerns provides a more accurate understanding Iranian-Venezuelan relations at the time and provides reason behind their supposedly incompatible relationship.
Into the bargain : the triumph and tragedy of nuclear internationalism during the mid-Cold War, 1958-1970
(2013-12) Hunt, Jonathan Reid; Brands, H. W.; Lawrence, Mark Atwood; Gavin, Francis J.; Hunt, Bruce J.; Wynn, Charters S.; Suri, Jeremi
The making of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) occupied the energy and attention of world powers, great and small, from the Irish Resolution’s proposal at the United Nations General Assembly in 1958 to the treaty’s entry into force in 1970. Accounts of why the international community fashioned a treaty whose articles and principles embody a tangle of self-contradictory rights, privileges, and obligations point to United States and Soviet hegemony, the rise of Soviet-American détente, or the intrinsic dangers of nuclear weapons. In contrast to these interpretations, this dissertation claims that the negotiation and achievement of the NPT was a contingent event whose course and content were shaped by a jumble of entangled causes: Cold War alliances, domestic politics, decolonization, the Vietnam War, and a schism in internationalist thought. The common impulse, however, was the perceived need to bring order to the Nuclear Age amid recurrent crises whose outbreak threatened global conflict if the spread of nuclear weapons continued unabated. In the contexts of the Cold War and decolonization, the establishment of a global nuclear order required Soviet-American cooperation in concert with the involvement of an international community then emerging from decolonization. Both were embodied in the cadre of arms control diplomats then working in Geneva and New York City. In the final analysis, the Cold War obstructed more than it abetted the treaty’s brokering and Soviet-American détente was more the result of international nuclear diplomacy than its cause. The Vietnam War both limited U.S. willingness to contemplate nuclear assurances requested by nuclear have-nots and the underlying reason that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sacrificed a NATO multilateral nuclear force for the sake of an NPT in an effort to quiet antiwar dissent at home. Soviet-American cooperation was necessary but not sufficient to achieve the treaty. The failure of initial efforts, the international consensus required to legitimate the treaty, and concurrent talks for a Latin American nuclear-free zone allowed nuclear have-nots to inscribe their preferences on the NPT, whose fusion of a nuclear hierarchy and a grand bargain remains an open chapter in the history of nuclear internationalism.
Media Cold Warriors: How the Pedro Panes Reinforced Cold War Policies toward Cuba
(Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2011) Vail, Meghan
Understanding National Security Strategies Through Time (Fall 2023)
(Texas National Security Review, 2023) Chin, John J.; Skinner, Kiron; Yoo, Clay
Vietnamese Refugees, Political Agency, and U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Vietnam (Fall 2023)
(Texas National Security Review, 2023) Nguyen, Y Thien
Western influence on terror groups in central Asia
(2007-05) Bagan, Lee Harris; Pedahzur, Ami
This thesis chronicles shipments from Western countries to Islamists in Central Asia from 1979-1988. This work conclusively proves that there was significant western influence on Islamist groups in late 20th century Central Asia and this influence may have led to terrorist activity in later years.