Theses and Dissertations
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The future of Swiss foreign and security policy: increasing international cooperation is the key to national autonomy
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011-12)
This thesis investigates the future development of Swiss foreign and security policy, particularly in the context of the continuing trend toward alliances and cooperative policymaking entities in and around Europe. It ...
Fear and attraction in statecraft: western multilateralism's double-edged swords
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-06)
From the Peace of Westphalia to the present, the ruling elites of kingdoms and states have attempted one international bargain after another for a variety of purposes. Whether it is to protect the integrity of a ruling ...
Images, imagination and impact: war in painting and photography from Vietnam to Afghanistan
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-06)
War is a recurring motif in the visual arts. The link in politics and the arts between culture and conflict is especially important in age of global communications and political participation, in which both the symbols of ...
Jobbik: a better Hungary at the cost of Europe
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-03)
Jobbik, an ultra-nationalist party in Hungary, was founded in 2003. By 2010, this party had secured national parliamentary representation and sent three representatives to the European parliament. In its manifesto and ...
FRANCE: NUKES STUCK BETWEEN NATO AND EU
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-03)
Today, with NATO incorporating policy and strategic changes amid the new perceived threat since September 11, 2001, France must again rethink and recalibrate its nuclear policy. At least since the end of World War II, ...
America first? Isolationism in U.S. foreign policy from the 19th to the 21st century
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
During the 2016 election campaign, President Donald J. Trump championed a policy of intervention and isolation in U.S. foreign policy, which aroused fears among European North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies ...
The culture of nationalism
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-12)
What was the role of high culture in the newly unified societies of Germany and Italy amid the ideology of nationalism in the late 19th and early 20th century? More specifically the question at hand is how did the visual ...
Kurt von Schleicher the soldier and politics in the run-up to national socialism: a case study of civil-military relations
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013-06)
This thesis analyzes the political role of the German General Staff as well as civil-military relations in Germany from the late 19th century until 1933. Specifically, it examines the rise and fall of Kurt von Schleicher. ...
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