Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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    The Effects of Ideological Conformity on Foreign Policymaking: A study of Ronald Reagan's Central American Policy

    Year: 2016, 2016
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Brownscombe, Emmett, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David M.K., Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert A., Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>During the 1970s, ideological divisions caused by divergent interpretations of the American failure in Vietnam permeated the world of foreign policymaking. This led to a concern among the architects of the Reagan administration that foreign policymaking had become incoherent. They attempted to mitigate the effects of this disharmony by re-establishing a workable degree of ideological… more

    Finding New Roads Towards Peace: The Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913

    Year: 2016, 2016
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Hristova, Elitsa Nikolaeva, Thesis advisor (ths): Andriewsky, Olga, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree committee member (dgc): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>This thesis provides an analysis of the Carnegie Commission's report on the causes and consequences of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913). Shortly after the closing of hostilities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace appointed an international Commission of Inquiry to collect evidence of atrocities from the sites of war. The thesis analyzes the arguments expressed in the… more

    The Technology of Consent: American Science Fiction and Cultural Crisis in the 1980s

    Year: 2016, 2016
    Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
    Name(s): Creator (cre): Andrews, Chad, Thesis advisor (ths): Hollinger, Veronica, Degree committee member (dgc): O'Connor, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Dunaway, Finis, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Abstract: <p>The 1980s in the United States have come into focus as years of extensive ideological and socioeconomic fracture. A conservative movement arose to counter the progressive gains of previous decades, neoliberalism became the nation's economic mantra, and détente was jettisoned in favour of military build-up. Such developments materialized out of a multitude of conflicts, a cultural… more