... the NSA documents. Secondly, I will share testimony on how students' views on US foreign policy have changed. The general consensus at the beginning of the semester is that one of the principal aims of US foreign policy is to promote democracy above all other values. After examining the NSA documents...

... development in Latin America served the aims of US foreign policy while creating a transnational space for national and local actors to assert their own cultural and political goals. Mark Rice is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York. His forthcoming book...

...- troductory essay. Both lay and specialized audiences will find Doves FOREIGN POLICY, PUBLIC POLICY 243 and Diplomats useful. Indeed, it ought to be required reading par- ticularly for that portion of the scholarly population who are the special proteges of state...

... million Vietnamese died under his reign. Yet, this is the man who is simply remembered as, "Yes he had his domestic prob- lems, but in foreign policy he brought us peace." What was almost maddeningly and incomprehensively frustrat- ing to my wife and I, when I was on trial in early 1973 [for...

... Chile's truth and reconciliation process. In February 1999, the president authorized, and his administration initiated, the Chile Declassification Project. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 declassified documents US foreign policy Pinochet Nixon Kissinger CIA...

... indignantly in a speech five years later, “We buy and use all these commodities while other people make profits on us by trading in them.”29 The Foreign- Trade Zones Act became law on June 18, 1934, six days after the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. 30 Three years later, artists...

... considered Haiti a critical capi- talist ally.21 Mirroring its anti-­Cuba and pro-­Haiti foreign policy, the US state has expedited the entry of Cuban refugees, while excluding Haitians. Declaring them “economic migrants” fleeing poverty and not persecution, the US state has claimed that Haitians are...

... counterparts. 25 Thus, rather than novelty, the US military’s labor policies in Korea were significant because they elevated unequal treatment of foreign workers to official policy. Political pressure from the United States made Korean workers all the more attractive for US military leaders. While...

...Jessie Kindig Reconsidering the US military presence in East Asia in the post-World War II period as a “violent embrace,” this article argues that soldiers' expectations of East Asia as an erotic paradise combined with US military policies to legitimate and normalize sexual access to Asian women...

... the administration’s concern over the country’s risk as a crucial place for communist expansion. This decision set a military precedent for nearly two decades of covert US operations in Laos. 10 According to historian Seth Jacobs, for a time “Laos became the only foreign country in the world where...

... living for Iraqi women, performatively constituting the feminist subjectivity central to the United States’ moral imperialist justification for war. However, the legitimation of US military women as valuable warring subjects — leading to the repeal of the com- bat exclusion policy and women’s full...

... about Puerto Ricans emerged in the US press, however, between 1948 and 1950. It was engineered by Puerto Rican politicians seeking to foster Puerto Rican migration to the US mainland and US investment on the island and was endorsed by Cold War US policy makers hoping to create a capitalist...

...Keith L. Camacho This article examines articulations for and against gay marriage in the successful legalization of Bill 232 in Hawai‘i and in the failed passage of Bill 185 in Guam to signal a profound ideological shift in the US colonization of these locations. The article likens this shift to a...

...Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copyright © 1994 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1994 The author at the age of two in Canadian County, Oklahoma. Courtesy of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. One or Two Things I Know about Us: ”Okies” in American Culture...

... over localized solutions. The technological systems implemented by the 1902 dam and the forc- ible switch to perennial irrigated agriculture remain vestigial artifacts of Egypt’s colonial subjugation. This article uses the construction of the Aswan Dam to articulate the politi- cal...

..., precepts defining the basic continu- ities of U.S. national security policies across decades and across administrations. And using the word rules as a verb indicates that these precepts provide the basis whereby the national security elites have tried to govern and police the so-­called American...

... the cases of direct collaboration of archaeologists with invading armies from the inception of invasions, the ethical aspects attain even more profound dimensions. Archaeologists are used for training military personnel, teaching the local language and customs for their new archaeo-an­...

... Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 FORUM ”IMPERIALISM-A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS?” Editor’s Note: In mid-2992, I drafted the following prospectus on behalf of the RHR...

...Glenn Wallach Copyright © September 1987 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1987 "Ichbin ein Amerikaner": Soviet Invasion and the Uses of Camelot Glenn Wallach Russian tanks rolled into the heartland and onto TV screens for a...

...Michael Geyer Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 Concerning the Question: Is Imperialism a Useful Category of Historical Analysis? Michael Geyer An alert, if somewhat musty, scholar once argued...