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Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present

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Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
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12,606 words
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United States embarked on an aggressive policy of overseas expansion. The

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass

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Current Version:
2009
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
4,236 words

Through the early nineteenth century the ability of African Americans to effectively participate in U.S. foreign policy was extremely limited.

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Encyclopedia of Human Rights

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2009
Subject:
Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Social sciences
Length:
8,368 words

International human rights standards developed since the end of World War II now serve as a guideline for governments on

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Oxford Companion to Australian Politics

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2008
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
3,109 words

Australian foreign policy refers to the policy adopted by Australian governments towards issues in the international environment. In the years

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Norman Hillmer

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
1,227 words
Canada was an imperfect creation, coming into being in 1867 with neither the diplomatic machinery nor the constitutional power to run a foreign policy. It acquired these incrementally, ... More
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
325 words

in independent Ireland took shape under considerable constraints. The former imperial power was both the Free State's closest neighbour and

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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (2 ed.)

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Current Version:
2004
Subject:
Social sciences, Politics
Length:
2,192 words

The term “foreign policy” is a nineteenth-century expansion of the idea of “policy,” which had been in use since Chaucer

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The Oxford Companion to American Military History

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Current Version:
2004

In the context of U.S. military history, foreign policy can be defined as “the goals the nation's officials seek to

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