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This study examines the Northwest Passage controversy between the United States and Canada beginning with the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea voyage through the passage without permission from the Canadian Government in August 1985 to the signing of the executive agreement on Arctic cooperation in January 1988. Particular focus is placed upon U.S. national interests in the Arctic region, Canadian public opinion and governmental reaction to the Polar Sea voyage, and U.S. freedom of the seas policy as exercised during the Reagan administration. The implications of the dispute upon NATO and the role of the Soviet Union are noted. A concluding analysis of this event is included, as well as a prescription for future cooperation by developing a Canadian-American Northwest Passage Coast Guard Patrol.

Controversy between the US and Canada from Aug. 1985 to the signing of the executive agreement on Arctic cooperation, Jan. 1988.

Perhaps no other foreign policy area brought forth the emotional anti communism characteristic of the 1950s as did American relations with the People's Republic of China. The so–called " loss of China "issue beginning in 1949, for which the Republicans primarily blamed the Democrats, severely strained the bipartisan approach towards foreign policy. In addition, four years before he died in 1951, Republican foreign policy leader Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg excluded China policy from the area of bipartisan agreement, while his party's loyalty to the defeated Nationalists remained strong. Senator Joseph McCarthy's"communists–in– government" charges during the Korean War, when American forces were engaged in combat with the People's Liberation Army, further exacerbated relations between the Republican and Democratic parties, and between the legislative and executive branches of government. Ominously, the possibility of a preventive strike on the China mainland also became the focus of serious consideration and possible implementation during the Formosa Strait confrontation of 1954–55.