The Evolution of "Munich" Analogy in the American Foreign Policy during Cold War
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2023
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Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Abstract
The thesis attempts to debunk why American presidents used the Munich analogy throughout the Cold War period. In doing so, it uses the method of foreign-policy analysis in conjunction with cognitive theory. These two angles capture the factors in the decision-making of each examined US president from 1945-1991. At the same time, this process traces the development of the Munich analogy employment throughout the bipolar confrontation.
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the munich analogy, the united states, foreign-policy, the cold war, decision-making process, historical reasoning, analogies