Chapter 8: From a World War to a Cold War (Contains Cuban Missile Crisis) Why did Cold War break out? This portion of the content deals with the reasons for the outbreak of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR Competing Ideologies: The Cold War confrontation between the USA and the USSR was a clash between the opposing ideologies of Communism (USSR) and Democracy (USA) Supporters of Democracy felt that Communism was akin to slavery and that only Democracy could offer freedom. On the
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COLLEGE OF LAW‚ GOVERNMENT AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL RELATION GFPP 2063 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY: NAME: NUR AMIRA SYUHADA BT AHMAD SOBRI PREPARED FOR: DR KNOCK TAPIWA ZENGENI Question 2: Critically discuss the main ideas of the constructivist approach to international relations Preface In our daily life‚ we are interconnected with each other when we start to communicate. Actors such as people‚ ideas and interest allow us to establish relationship
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the impact of the end of the Cold War on US foreign policy Introduction: When the world famous liberal thinker Francis Fukuyama in his masterpiece declared that we were witnessing the end of the history‚ he was greeting the new political structure and also the new international environment‚ which is peaceful[1]. However‚ developments that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed us that the dissolution of the Soviets was unexpected. The international society was not ready for peace
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AMSTU Cold War DBQ Essay The growing fear of the spread of communism throughout the World during the Cold War era resulted in the United States making brash and misguided decisions stemming from the values of the containment policy. This era was marked by concern that other nations‚ especially those in the Western Hemisphere‚ would fall to Soviet influence‚ and additionally‚ that there were communist supporters within the United States‚ potentially in government offices. Americans became increasingly
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The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States with NATO and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in Warsaw Pact). Historians have not fully agreed on the dates‚ but 1947–1991 is common. It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides‚ although there were major regional wars in Korea and Vietnam. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against
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The Cold War era was guided by the policy of “containment”. The word was mainly used only in its foreign policy version‚ first articulated by George F. Kennan in 1947. Through actions of the United States‚ the power of the Soviet Union would not endanger national security if it could be contained within a clearly defined sphere of influence. (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) However‚ this term also describes the United States government’s response to other postwar domestic developments. Although many
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whether the discipline of International Relations (IR) was in the past‚ and is still now‚ a predominantly American social science‚ is one that has taken up a great deal of discourse in the field of IR. Indeed this question has been the driving force for the IR theory course for which this paper was written; as evidenced by the title and content of the course textbook at the very least (International Relations -- Still an American Social Science?‚ Crawford‚ 2001). But how appropriate is it to actually
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II State boundaries have constituted a major topic in the tradition of political geography. Political geography ‘is concerned with the relationship between political power and geographical factors. It is interested in how geographical factors correlate with power‚ such as how land‚ air and sea power correlate with a country’s political‚ military and economic power. Its focus is on area or space and their physical‚ human and spatial (space-related) dimensions.’ The countries of the world can be divided
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Cold War Impact on US Foreign Policy The mentality of the Cold War greatly affected the decisions made by the Presidents that held the office from 1950 to 1974. The main thought that prevailed from the beginning of the Cold War was containment. It was the main goal of the United States to contain the spread of Communism whenever possible. “Brinkmanship” was the first major policy that was employed by the United States in the effort to stop the spread of Communism throughout the world. President
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1. The short answer is that current events are news regarding what is happening around the world. The study of international relations involves being "political historians" and "political philosophers”. It’s the study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g.‚ bureaucracies and political parties). It is related to a number of other academic disciplines‚ including political science‚ geography‚ history‚ economics‚ law‚ sociology
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