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“Detroit ‘Polar Bears’ in the Land of Lice and Snow: The American Soldier Experience in North Russia, 1918 – 1919”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-26)
This thesis examines the experience of American soldiers serving in North Russia in 1918 – 1919, an expedition often referred to as an offshoot of World War One. It bases its conclusions by utilizing the comprehensive Polar ...
“Jeffrey Sachs and the Costs of Capitalism. Shock Therapy in eastern European Transition Economies”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-20)
This thesis examines economist Jeffrey Sachs’s implementation of shock therapy in transition economies from 1985-1994. Analysis begins with the foundation of the practice in Bolivia, and examines the changes in the approach ...
“Benign Negligence: U.S.-South Korean Relations at the End of the Carter Administration”
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2017-04-27)
President Carter hoped to define his foreign policy on human rights and liberalization. With the removal of the longtime authoritarian leader, Park Chung Hee, the year 1979 presented an opportunity for democracy in South ...
“Insuring Peace: British Intervention in Northern Ireland After the Belfast Peace Agreement”
(Vanderbilt University, 2017)
This work examines the political transformations in Northern Ireland after the Belfast
Peace Agreement of 1998 ended 30 years of conflict between the country’s Protestant, Unionist
and Catholic, Nationalist communities. ...
“ ‘The Best Laid Plans’: French and British Diplomatic Strategy in the Jacobite Rising of 1745”
(Vanderbilt University, 2017-04-26)
This project analyses the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in an international context. In particular, the thesis looks at French involvement and promises of support for the Jacobites both before and throughout the first months of ...