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The Johnson Treatment: Cold War Food Aid and the Politics of Gratitude
(2014-09-30)
to modify its foreign policy of Cold War nonalignment, support Washington's global anti-communist agenda, and forge better terms with its regional rival and U.S. military ally, Pakistan. American officials also reasoned that U.S. generosity would encourage...
Legal empire: international law and culture in U.S.-Latin American relations
(2013)
, and economic expectations as a way of creating change within Latin American societies. This represented a less intrusive and seemingly more respectful way of exerting influence in the region all for the purpose of addressing Washington's concerns with national...
From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis examines the creation and response in America to the 1983 nuclear
disaster film The Day After. Fueled by renewed nuclear buildup of the 1980s Cold War, the
release of the movie became a worldwide sensation, ...