Browsing Theses by Subject "American Studies"
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A Beacon of Hope: Affirmative Action and Bakke’s Judicial Road to Fairness
(2012)Abstract: According to Gerald Rosenberg, there are two main ways to view the American Supreme Court. There is the Dynamic Court theory which views the Court as a powerfull vehicle capable of succesfully proposing social ... -
A Friend of Islam: US Public Diplomacy in the Muslim World as Constructed through President Obama’s Speech in Cairo and Jakarta
(2015)This thesis presents an analysis of the US public diplomacy in the Muslim world after President Bush’s so-called “War on Terror.” It examines the transcripts of two of President Obama’s speeches; one was delivered at Cairo ... -
A Man for All Seasons
(2015)This thesis uses Stephen Greenblatt's take on New Historicism to analyze several works of fiction of the 20th and 21st Centuries in which a fictional reworking of Thomas More plays a part. The focus lies on Hilary Mantel's ... -
A Tale of Two Cities. City Diplomacy in Utrecht and Portland, Oregon from 2012 to 2015
(2016)City diplomacy emerged from different shifts within diplomacy. First of all, traditional state to state diplomacy, with professional diplomats as the most important actors, shifted to a multi leveled diplomacy in which ... -
Achievement Unlocked. The Americanness of Video Games
(2012)In the few decades of its existence, the cultural impact and influence of video games has been almost constantly growing. Assuming a similar growth in the next few decades, video games could very well become one of the ... -
Adapting to Atlas: A study on the evolution of nuclear policy as portrayed by the development and deployment of Atlas missiles, 1945-1965.
(2014)The period after World War II and the beginning of the Cold War are characterized by significant changes in the United States government and military. Changes in the international environment and the development of nuclear ... -
Affecting an alliance
(2011)How U.S.-Turkish relations are affected by the existence of a large Kurdish nationalist minority in Turkey and Iraq. -
Ambivalent Multilateralism: The United States and the Biological Weapons Convention
(2014)The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), established in 1972, was the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons. Using pathogens — viruses, bacteria, and other disease-causing ... -
American Between the Lines: National Imagination and Identity in European-American Autobiographies, 1850-1950
(2011)The Civil War that took place in the United States between 1861 and 1865 has often been described as a threat to national unity. However, America was not a unity considering its internal political, economic, and cultural/ethnical ... -
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM DURING THE AFGHAN SOVIET WAR 1979-1989
(2017)This thesis looks at the Soviet–Afghan war as a crucial event at the Cold War final stage. It analyses the U.S.’s involvement in the conflict, focusing on the role of American exceptionalism in U.S. administrations’ policy ... -
American Indian Cultural Duality: Threat or Opportunity
(2013)As the United States edged its way into imperial power in the post-Civil War era by entering the New Territory, the Indian problem was solved by way of the General Allotment Act of 1887. Dividing a multitude of Indian ... -
American Influence: Representations of Force and Saving in Alien Invasion Films
(2013)American society has had a large influence on many aspects of modern life all over the wordl. This essay looks at how exactly American society influences the representation of force and saving in alien invasion films. ... -
American Power on the Internet: The Conceptualization of Power in the Debates about Online Piracy and Wikileaks
(2012)The main question that this research addresses is: “How is the power of the United States government conceptualized in the debates about online piracy and Wikileaks?” This research will explore several related issues, such ... -
American Working Women in the “Roaring Twenties” How the First World War was Indecisive for the Changes in the Work Force for American Women
(2014)Comparative study of women in the American work force between the period before the First World War and the 1920s. The war caused many changes in the work force compared to the period before the war, and this thesis looks ...