... Commander William S. Norman. It describes the challenges the author faced living in segregated small-town Florida in the 1970's which made entering the Navy an attractive option for a Black teenager, living in poverty and surrounded by violence and conflict with few other options. family culture...

...Chapter 3 explores the dynamics of intergovernmental competition and conflict. President Roosevelt approached postwar schemes with uncertainty during America’s first years in World War II. Other US government agencies contested the US Army’s claim that it should handle postwar governance primarily...

...The renewal of the twentieth-century European conflict did not initially attract a great deal of interest in the United States. The country was in the grip of the Depression. Many Americans, disappointed by the failed settlement of the previous war, were determined to avoid further involvement...

...The origins of the settlement of World War II began during the actual fighting. This settlement is inseparable from the beginning of the Cold War, the third phase of the twentieth-century European conflict. The Cold War began as World War II concluded and prevented a formal resolution to that war...

...International conflict throughout twentieth-century Europe can be divided into three parts. The first phase began with the Balkan Wars in 1912, extended through to the end of World War I, and lasted until 1921 in Europe. The Paris peace settlement proved to be fragile, and after a brief respite...

...The reaction to the Americanization of the Vietnam conflict posed serious political problems for the president. Like Heracles confronting the Hydra—the mythical beast that would grow two heads when one was severed—Johnson found himself dealing with opposition to his policies from both conservatives...

..., Henry, and Edith). Niles wrote a letter that would be delivered to Rena Lipetz. It contained a strongly disparaging statement about Jews, but it must be understood within the specific context of his conflict with Henry and Edna Necarsulmer. Berea College Berea KY Campbell Olive Dame Fineman Irving...

...Recent military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have reminded Americans that war is a multidimensional phenomenon involving much more than tangible considerations such as technology, logistics, and capital. Matters of the human heart, the variety of communities that humans form, and the multiple...

...The chapter follows on from the Khe Sanh experience, which caused the military leadership on each side of the conflict to review their respective situations and to decide on some conceptual changes in their methods of operation. On assuming command of the 3rd Marine Division, Major General Davis...

... Wallace radio autobiographical dissimulation class conflict King Cole Room Masked Avenger mutability Frank Sinatra The Philadelphia Story blurring of art and life Midwood Movie Theater It’s me thinly disguised. I don’t think I should disguise it any more—it’s me. —Harry Block acknowledging...

...Guerrilla insurgencies continue to rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons. At the same time, urban population centers in both industrialized and developing nations attract ever-increasing numbers of people, outstripping rural growth rates...

...This chapter discusses the new conflicts that arose following the end of the Cold War. It was noted that the end of the Cold War appeared to bring a peace dividend to the United States. However, Iraqi forces conquered Kuwait shortly after, thus forcing George W. Bush to order U.S. troops back...

... together. This transition failed to proceed smoothly because the divisions fostered and reinforced through four years of armed conflict remained especially pronounced along the borderland of the war in eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia. Harlan County KY Steele Adaline Swindall John Wesley...

... acceptance and application of laws of international conflict, in particular the Geneva and Hague Conventions. The most influential occupational experience was the Rhineland occupation following World War I, memorialized in the so-called Hunt Report. That occupation in particular led to the development...

... French North Africa interagency conflicts Murphy Robert North African occupation Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration War Department Committee on Combined Boards Interdepartmental Advisory Committee Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations Office of Foreign...

... was exacerbated. One especially important impediment to repairing ships (and a legacy of the Great Depression) was bitter class conflict between shipyard workers and shipbuilders, especially the Admiralty Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repair – as well as between that Controller and the Minister...

...This Chapter introduces readers to the puzzle the book is concerned with, namely norm conflict as a decision-making problem. It proceeds with spelling out the research questions – how do states respond to norm conflict and why do they respond the way they do. It then walks the reader through...

...Chapter Two establishes the normative context in the three case study countries –Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia – which provides the foundation for identifying and studying responses to norm conflict. The chapter analyses the degree of commitment to the two norms in Indonesia, Thailand...

... how the study of norm conflict can enliven and advance the research agenda of scholars focusing on norms and how normative change takes place. The research from Southeast Asia suggests that the outcome of norm conflict will not necessarily be full-fledged norm replacement. Instead, subtler normative...

... for detachments in Sigonella, Sicily, and Glen Douglas, Scotland. The author describes performing duties beyond his responsibilities, and being denied recognition for that performance, as well as formal recognition by nomination in a subsequent instance. The author describes facing conflict, racism...