Naval Postgraduate School
A Far Eastern Munich: appeasement by omission.
fareasternmunich00carn.pdf (6.116Mb)Abstract
The influence of history on foreign policy decisions is recognizable and
demonstrable. The extent of this influence is described elusively at best.
Often, the interpretation given to historical fact is more significant than
the fact itself. To the degree that an historical concept is part of the
decision-making process, the resultant events will become dependent upon past
history. Thus decisions of causation are able to evoke trends of action or
behavioral patterns that can become self-perpetuating or, in a less positive
sense, at least reinforcing. On the other hand, if decisions are made intentionally
to avert what is predicted to be an analogous situation, the repeatability
or cyclic theory of history is broken. It is the success of this
latter case which is the most difficult to substantiate: there is no
convenient means of recording non-events.
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This thesis document was issued under the authority of another institution, not NPS. At the time it was written, a copy was added to the NPS Library collection for reasons not now known. It has been included in the digital archive for its historical value to NPS. Not believed to be a CIVINS (Civilian Institutions) title.
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