Date of Award
2015
Degree Name
History
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Christopher White
Second Advisor
Daniel Holbrook
Third Advisor
Michael Woods
Abstract
This thesis examines three reactions to the Vietnam War—Neoconservatism, the Abrams Doctrine, and the War Powers Resolution—and argues that those reactions have shaped America‟s foreign policy agenda in the last fifty years. Beginning with the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, exploring the Reagan era and its interventions in Grenada and Latin America, and ending in the mid-1990s, this thesis traces the politics of war in the United States since Vietnam and argues that the culmination of these three reactions during the George H.W. Bush presidency has resulted in the subsequent direction of the country‟s objectives abroad.
Subject(s)
United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1981-1989.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.
Recommended Citation
Lore, Andrew Chase, "The Politics of War: The Abrams Doctrine, the War Powers Resolution, and Neoconservatism in the Post-Vietnam Era" (2015). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 904.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/904
