HIS377H1 Lecture Notes - Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Mujahideen
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Peace through strength : replaces the concept of d tente, d tente gets attacked from the left, due to the terrible human rights record, on the right they are attacked as being defeatist, end up with the age of dissidence, a ford, not a lincoln . 1976 election ford faces contentions within his own party: halloween massacre (november 5th, 1975, massive cabinet shuffle, loses the election to jimmy carter, born again baptists, and an engineer, he was the governor of georgia, he wants to restore america"s moral authority, worries that the us has lost its moral high ground, secretary of state= cyrus vance, nsa: zbigniew brzezinski, wins: The energy crisis: because iran has all the oil, d tente and the grand design, the global intrudes on us foreign relations, rise of international and transnational actors, a question of limits, enemies and allies, revolutionary in its methods and conservative in its aims , d tente= great powers control the international system/relations.
