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Comparative and Transnational Histories of the Cold War

The Apprentice
The depicted relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump links law, real estate, and politics, as well as establishing a lineage of the American…
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First Blood (1982)
The increasingly destructive competition between Vietnam veteran John Rambo and small-town Sheriff Will Teasle is at essence a battle between two rival…
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The Bikeriders
This intimate depiction of a Chicago motorcycle club meditates on associational culture, the social changes of the 1960s, and how gender and generation…
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Agency, Asymmetry, and Discourses on Global Politics
The ways in which the influence of other states, such as Israel and Russia, on Western politics is discussed frequently obscure more than they reveal.
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Rambo III (1988)
In Rambo III, the eponymous soldier hero exhibits a strained relationship with the country he serves, and forms a far warmer one with the Afghan…
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12.12: The Day
This 1970s-set South Korean military thriller, based on real events, provides a conspiratorial, personalised, and masculinised vision of the workings of…
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The Living Daylights (1987)
The Living Daylights both deviated from and demonstrated some of the hallmarks of the Bond franchise in its depiction of the Soviet-Afghan War.
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