The Reagan Moment
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In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to Latin America; the People's Republic of China moved to privatize, decentralize, and open its economy; Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda; and relations between Washington and Moscow thawed en route to the Soviet Union's dissolution.
The Reagan Moment places US foreign relations into global context by examining the economic, international, and ideational relationships that bound Washington to the wider world. Editors Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles bring together a cohort of scholars with fresh insights from untapped and declassified global sources to recast Reagan's pivotal years in power.
Contributors: Seth Anziska, James Cameron, Elizabeth Charles, Susan Colbourn, Michael De Groot, Stephanie Freeman, Christopher Fuller, Flavia Gasbarri, Mathias Haeussler, William Inboden, Mark Atwood Lawrence, Elisabeth Mariko Leake, Melvyn P. Leffler, Evan D. McCormick, Jennifer Miller, David Painter, Robert Rakove, William Michael Schmidli, Sarah Snyder, Lauren Frances Turek, James Wilson
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Jonathan R. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the US Air War College. Follow him on X @JRHunTx
Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is author of Engaging the Evil Empire.
Content
Introduction: The Man, or the Moment?, by Jonathan R. Hunt
Part One: Global and Domestic Issues
1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War, by Melvyn P. Leffler
2. Energy and the End of the Evil Empire, by David Painter
3. Reagan and the Evolution of US Counterterrorism, by Christopher Fuller
4. Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits,Capital Flows, and the International Economy, by Michael De Groot
Part Two: Western and Eastern Europe
5. Confronting the Soviet Threat: Reagan's Approach to Policymaking, by Elizabeth Charles and James Wilson
6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years, by Susan Colbourn and Mathias Haeussler
7. Ronald Reagan and the Nuclear Freeze Movement, by Stephanie Freeman
Part Three: Human Rights and Domestic Politics
8. Rhetoric and Restraint: Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam Syndrome, by Mark Atwood Lawrence
9. Compartmentalizing US Foreign Policy: Human Rights in the Reagan Years, by Sarah Snyder
10. Between Values and Action: Religious Rhetoric, Human Rights, and Reagan's Foreign Policy, by Lauren Frances Turek
Part Four: Latin America
11. Reframing Human Rights: Reagan's "Project Democracy" and the US Intervention in Nicaragua, by William Michael Schmidli
12. Reagan and Pinochet's Chile: The Diplomacy of Disillusion, by Evan D. McCormick
13. Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981-1989, by James Cameron
Part Five: The Middle East and Africa
14. The Limits of Triumphalism in the Middle East: Israel, the Palestinian Question, and Lebanon in the Age of Reagan, by Seth Anziska
15. The Central Front of Reagan's Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan, by Robert Rakove
16. The Reagan Administration and the Cold War Endgame in the Periphery: The Case of Southern Africa, by Flavia Gasbarri
Part Six: South and East Asia
17. Reagan and the Crisis of Southwest Asia, by Elisabeth Mariko Leake
18. Adam Smith's Arthritis: Japan and the Fears of American Decline, by Jennifer Miller
19. One World, Two Chinas: Dreams of Capitalist Convergence in East Asia, by Jonathan R. Hunt
Conclusion: Reagan Reconsidered, by Simon Miles
