The Study Of The American Tibetan Policy Formulated By The NSC During The Eisenhower Administration

The Tibetan policy of the Eisenhower administration can be divided into twostages by the Tibetan Revolt and the flight of Dalai Lama in 1959. The former policymainly concentrated on the covert operations implemented by the Central IntelligenceAgency, which were guided by the "National Security Council Directive on CovertOperations" (NSC5412 series). Latter, as the two Great Powers, the United States andthe Soviet Union, were opposed to each other in all fields, including politics, economyand ideology, etc, the thinking of Cold War became the dominant idea of theAmerican national security strategy. Meanwhile, the non-military elements appearedin "Tibet Issue" after 1959 provided the National Security Council (ab. NSC) anopportunity to combine Tibetan policy into its strategic system in the Far East(NSC5913/1). Therefore, it became a brand new strategy of the American TibetanPolicy to restraint China from the perspectives of "human rights" and"self-determination" and to internationalize "Tibet Issue". Under the guidance of theNSC, the Eisenhower administration reinforced its Tibetan policy.The article is under the guidance of materialism, takes the National InterestPrinciple, Ideology Theory and Geopolitics Theory as the main theoreticalfoundations. By analyzing the NSC reports and foreign relations files of theEisenhower Administration, which have close relationship with "Tibet Issue", thearticle tries to describe the policy making process and the strategic thinking of theNSC when it formulated policy and draws out the basic conditions and characters ofthe Tibetan policy during the Eisenhower Administration.The dissertation can be divided into three parts as follows:Section one introduces the history of the development and its mechanism of theNSC during its early years, then analyses the NSC first estimation report on Tibet.Section two analyses the directive of the former Tibetan policy of theEisenhower Administration (NSC5412 series), and describes the covert operationsimplemented by the Central Intelligence Agency in Tibet under its guidance.Section three narrates the making and implementation of the Tibetan policy bythe NSC after the Tibetan Revolt and describes the changes in Tibetan policy.Moreover, tries to analyze the reason why the NSC adjusted the Tibetan policy.