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Approaching the Study of American Foreign Relations | |
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The World-System, Hegemony, and Decline | |
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Cultural Interactions | |
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The Gendering of Peoples and Nations | |
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Race and the American Century | |
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National Security, Core Values, and Power | |
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Bureaucratic Politics and Policy Outcomes | |
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The First World War, and the League Fight Documents | |
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The First Lusitania Note Requests Germany to Halt Submarine Warfare, 1915 | |
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President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War Against Germany, 1917 | |
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Senator Robert M. La Follette Voices His Dissent, 1917 | |
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Wilson Proclaims U.S. War Aims: The Fourteen Points, 1918 | |
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Articles 10 through 16 of the League of Nations Covenant, 1919 | |
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Wilson Defends the Peace Treaty and League, 1919 | |
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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Proposes Reservations to the League Covenant, 1919 | |
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From Peace to War: Progressive Internationalists Confront the Forces of Reaction | |
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The Peace Advocate Out of Touch with Reality | |
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Wilsonianism: A Workable Blueprint for a Broken World | |
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The International History of the 1920s Documents | |
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Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes Advocates Naval Disarmament, 1921 | |
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The Isolationist Chicago Tribune Denounces Europe's Folly, 1921 | |
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Reformer Jane Addams Assesses the League of Nations, 1922 | |
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Debts and German Reparations: Hughes Calls on Private Experts for Help, 1922 | |
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Argentine Writer Manuel Ugarte Identifies the United States as the "New Rome," 1923 | |
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"Trade Follows the Film," 1925 | |
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Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover Extols U.S. Foreign Trade, 1926 | |
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War, 1928 | |
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Essays | |
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The Republican Retreat from International Responsibilities | |
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U.S. Cultural Expansion in an Era of Systemic Upheaval | |
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Women's Internationalism | |
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U.S. Entry into World War II Documents | |
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Senator Gerald P. Nye Cites the Lessons of History and Advocates Neutrality, 1936 | |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Proposes to "Quarantine" Aggressors, 1937 | |
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Japan Envisions a "New Order" in Asia, 1938 | |
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FDR Proposes Lend-Lease Aid to Great Britain, 1940 | |
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Roosevelt Orders the U.S. Navy to "Shoot on Sight," 1941 | |
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Japan Proposes Two Diplomatic Options to the United States, November 1941 | |
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Washington Rejects Japan's Proposals and Reaffirms the Open Door, November 1941 | |
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Roosevelt Delivers His War Message to Congress, 1941 | |
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The Global Threat and the Case for War | |
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Stalemate and the Case Against U.S. Entry into the War | |
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Defeating the Axis, Planning the Peace: The Second World War Documents | |
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Roosevelt Promises a Second Front, 1942 | |
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Marshal Joseph Stalin Conveys Impatience over a Second Front, 1943 | |
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Roosevelt and Stalin Discuss the "Four Policemen," at the Teheran Conference, 1943 | |
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British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill and Stalin Cut Their Percentages Deal, 1944 | |
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The Yalta Protocol of Proceedings, 1945 | |
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The Yalta Agreement on Soviet Entry into the War Against Japan, 1945 | |
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Roosevelt's Anger with Stalin, 1945 | |
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Roosevelt's Last Letter to Churchill, 1945 | |
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Essays | |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Successful Wartime Diplomacy | |
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The Failure of Roosevelt's Wartime Diplomacy | |
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The Origins of the Cold War Documents | |
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The Franck Committee Predicts a Nuclear-Arms Race If the Atomic Bomb Is Dropped on Japan, 1945 | |
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Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson Appeals for Atomic Talks with the Soviets, 1945 | |
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Attach? George F. Kennan Critiques Soviet Foreign Policy in His "Long Telegram," 1946 | |
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Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares an "Iron Curtain" Has Descended on Europe, 1946 | |
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Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace Questions the "Get Tough" Policy, 1946 | |
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Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Novikov Identifies a U.S. Drive for World Supremacy, 1946 | |
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The Truman Doctrine Calls for Aid to Greece and Turkey to Contain Totalitarianism, 1947 | |
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The Marshall Plan (Economic Cooperation Act) Provides Aid for European Reconstruction, 1948 | |
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The National Security Council Paper No. 68 (NSC-68) | |
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Reassesses the Soviet Threat and Recommends a Military Buildup, 1950 | |
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Secrets and Threats: Atomic Diplomacy and Soviet-American Antagonism | |
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Provincialism and Confrontation: President Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the Cold War | |
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Two Cold War Empires: Imposition vs. Multilateralism | |
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The Korean War and Containment in Asia Documents | |
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U.S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart Reports Mao's Overture, 1949 | |
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The National Security Council Extends Containment to Asia, December 1949 | |
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson Defines the Defense Perimeter in Asia, 1950 | |
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North Korean Leader Kim Il Sung Pleads for Soviet Support, January 1950 | |
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President Harry S. Truman and His Advisers Confer at the "Blair House Meeting," June 26, 1950 | |
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Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Informs Joseph Stalin of China's Decision to Enter the Korean War, 1950 | |
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General Douglas MacArthur Dismisses the Likelihood of Chinese Intervention, 1950 | |
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MacArthur's "No Substitute for Victory" Speech, 1951 | |
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Essays | |
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Korea's Civil War and the Roots of U.S. Intervention | |
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Korea: Stalin's Expansionist Gamble | |
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The Lost Chance for Peace: Washington Rejected Chinese Communist Overtures | |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nuclear Arms Documents | |
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National Security Council Paper No. 162/2 (NCS-162/2) Promotes Atomic Power, 1953 | |
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Dwight D. Eisenhower Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons: The Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1955 | |
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The National Security Council Discusses the Ramifications of Sputnik, 1957 | |
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The National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) Protests the Nuclear Arms Race, 1957 | |
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Reflects on the Nuclear Arms Race, 1970 | |
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Senator John F. Kennedy Presses for More Military Spending to Close the Missile Gap, 1960 | |
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Eisenhower Warns Against the "Military-Industrial Complex," 1961 | |
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Essays | |
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Eisenhower's Heroic but Failed Crusade Against Militarization | |
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Eisenhower's Reckless Nuclear Gamble over the Taiwan Strait | |
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Cold War Culture and the "Third World" Documents | |
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Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq Defends the Nationalization of Oil, 1951 | |
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U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson Doubts Mossadeq's Mental Stability, 1952 | |
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President John F. Kennedy Launches the Peace Corps, 1961 | |
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JFK Enlists Youth and Idealism in the Peace Corps, 1961 | |
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A Peace Corps Volunteer Describes Life in Ghana, 1964 | |
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The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Plans for Tourism, 1949 | |
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Modernity Goes on Display: San Juan's Caribe Hilton Hotel, 1949 | |
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A Puerto Rican Cartoon Satirizes U.S. Tourists, 1960 | |
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Essays | |
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Culture Clash: Gender, Oil, and Iranian Nationalism | |
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Cultural Cooperation: The Peace Corps in Ghana | |
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Cultural Negotiation: U.S. Tourism in Puerto Rico | |
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Cuba and the Missile Crisis Documents | |
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CIA Assassination Plots Against Cuban Leader Fidel Castro (1960-1965), 1975 | |
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Guidelines for Operation Mongoose, 1962 | |
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Missiles Photographed in Cuba: President John F. Kennedy Meets with His Advisers, October 16, 1962 | |
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Kennedy Addresses the Nation, October 22, 1962 | |
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Asks for a U.S. No-Invasion Pledge, October 26, 1962 | |
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Khrushchev Requests U.S. Removal of Jupiter Missiles from Turkey, October 27, 1962 | |
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Kennedy and ExComm Consider Trading the Jupiter Missiles in Turkey, October 27, 1962 | |
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Soviet Official Anastas I. Mikoyanand Fidel Castro Debate and Review the Crisis, November 4-5, 1962 | |
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Essays | |
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Patient Diplomacy and Measured Pressure: JFK's Finest Hour | |
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Spinning Out of Conrol: Kennedy's War Against Cuba and the Missile Crisis | |
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The Vietnam War Documents | |
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The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 | |
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Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, 1954 | |
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North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap Outlines His People's War Strategy, 1961 | |
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The Tonkin Gulf Resolution Authorizes the President to Use Force, 1964 | |
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A Bureaucratic Insider Laments the Momentum Against Negotiation, November 1964 | |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's Advisors Chart the Path to Military Escalation, December 1964 | |
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Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Urges the North Vietnamese to Fight On, 1965 | |
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Senator J. William Fulbright Decries the "Arrogance of Power," 1966 | |
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara Concludes That He Erred, 1995 | |
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International Capitalism and Communism Collide with Vietnamese Nationalism | |
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Lyndon Johnson and His Bureaucracy Choose War | |
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An Unwinnable War | |
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Richard M. Nixon, Henry A. Kissinger, the Grand Strategy, and D?tente Documents | |
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President Richard M. Nixon Recalls His Initial Goals (1968), 1978 | |
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The Nixon Doctrine Calls on Asian Nations to Take Responsibility for Their Own Security, 1969 | |
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Nixon Explains the Five Power Centers of the New Global Economy, 1971 | |
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Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Defends D?tente, 1974 | |
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U.S. Covert Action in Chile (1963-1973), 1975 | |
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The Journalist Anthony Lewis Blasts Kissinger's Record, 1977 | |
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Nixon's Innovative Grand Design and the Wisdom of D?tente | |
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Why D?tente Failed | |
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Kissinger's Realism Without Morality | |
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The Cold War Ends and the Post-Cold War Era Begins Documents | |
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President Ronald Reagan Denounces the Soviet Union, 1981 | |
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Reagan Touts U.S. Military Power and Introduces the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983 | |
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Reagan Defends SDI After the Reykjav?k Summit Meeting, 1986 | |
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Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Criticizes SDI After the Reykjav?k Summit Meeting, 1986 | |
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Soviet Reformer Georgi Arbatov Explains the "New Thinking" in the Soviet Union, 1989 | |
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President George Bush Proclaims Cold War Victory, 1990 | |
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President William J. Clinton Applauds America's Globalism and Warns Against a New Isolationism, 1995 | |
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President George W. Bush Jettisons the Multilateral Kyoto Protocol on the Environment, 2001 | |
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Essays | |
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Superpower Decline and Hegemonic Survival | |
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President Ronald Reagan's Successful Strategy of Negotiating from Strength | |
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The Limits of American Post-Cold War Power | |
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September 11, 2001, and Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World Documents | |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt Befriends King Ibn Saud, 1945 | |
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The National Security Council Weighs U.S. Options in the Middle East, 1948 | |
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Egypt's Gamel Abdel Nasser Justifies Nationalizing the Suez Canal, 1956 | |
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The Palestinian National Covenant Calls for the Liberation of Palestine, 1968 | |
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The Carter Doctrine Announces U.S. Intention to Repel Aggression in the Persian Gulf, 1980 | |
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President George Bush Declares a New World Order During the Persian Gulf Crisis, 1990 | |
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Pleads for Peace, 1993 | |
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President George W. Bush Asks, "Why Do They Hate Us?" 2001 | |
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Osama bin Laden Proclaims, "God Has Given Them Back What They Deserve," 2001 | |
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President Bush Makes the Case for War on Iraq, 2003 | |
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Essays | |
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The Revolt of Islam | |
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A Cash with U.S. Foreign Policy | |
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A Clash Between Globalization and Tradition | |
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