Pursuing Postponement: The Eisenhower Administration's Policymaking for the Developing World

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dc.contributor.advisorRandall, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Brenan
dc.contributor.committeememberTerriff, Terry
dc.contributor.committeememberChastko, Paul
dc.contributor.committeememberJameson, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeememberKeeley, James
dc.contributor.committeememberPach, Chester
dc.contributor.committeememberLaumonier, Lucie
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-20T19:26:06Z
dc.date.available2016-12-20T19:26:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the Eisenhower administration’s positions and policies towards the developing world. During the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, the complications involved in conducting an increasingly global Cold War presented Eisenhower and his officials with extensive and expanding problems. Nationalism, anti-colonialism, pushes for economic rebalancing, and other forms of self-assertion surged in regions across the globe described in this dissertation as the “Third World.” In Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia a variety of drives against the status quo confronted the Eisenhower administration, and Eisenhower in particular, with challenges of immense importance. The central focus of this dissertation is how Eisenhower chose to meet those challenges, and how officials like John Foster Dulles and Richard Nixon supported and agreed or (more often in Nixon’s case) diverged and disagreed with the President on his choices. This dissertation argues that Eisenhower chose to pursue a policy of postponement toward the Third World; not necessarily attempting to maintain the status quo, but seeking to delay and otherwise slow the forces of change at work in the Third World. Richard Nixon, by dint of his contentious mentor-protégé relationship with John Foster Dulles, and the fact that he simultaneously served as a crucial tool in, and active critic of Eisenhower’s policies and positions in the Third World, provides a representative example of the many officials in Eisenhower’s administration who perceived and disagreed with the pursuit of postponement. Dulles too, though more often than not a strident supporter of Eisenhower, was intrinsically torn between his duty and his fundamental belief in the necessity of dynamic foreign policies. This study explores the means by which Eisenhower pursued postponement in the Third World, and complications and frustrations which arose during this ultimately doomed pursuit.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSmith, B. (2016). Pursuing Postponement: The Eisenhower Administration's Policymaking for the Developing World (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27486en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27486
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/3500
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectHistory--United States
dc.subject.classificationDwight Eisenhoweren_US
dc.subject.classificationJohn Foster Dullesen_US
dc.subject.classificationRichard Nixonen_US
dc.subject.classificationPolicy-makingen_US
dc.subject.classificationThird Worlden_US
dc.subject.classificationPostponementen_US
dc.subject.classificationVice President Nixonen_US
dc.titlePursuing Postponement: The Eisenhower Administration's Policymaking for the Developing World
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineHistory
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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