The Lion with Two Tales: Czechoslovak economic and foreign policy-making and its impact on U.S. relations, 1919-1929

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The relationship between the United States and Eastern Europe is often neglected in the scholarship of interwar international studies.This gap is all the more pronounced given the parallels that exist in the region between the events of the 1920s and the past decade and a half.Following the collapse of communism in 1989, Eastern Europe once again became the focus of Western statesmen and businessmen interested in integrating and stabilizing the region which had long been dominated by an imperial power.The U.S.-Czechoslovak relationship in the 1920s offers a case study for understanding the role policy formulation played in some of the problems of integrating the small states of Eastern Europe into the broader scope of European and even trans-Atlantic affairs.Specifically, this dissertation examines the connection between foreign policy formulation and economic decision-making as it related to U.S. capital investment in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s.By analyzing the effectiveness of Czech

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