The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s

Published by Cornell University Press 2021

The Reagan Moment

America and the World in the 1980s

Edited by: Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles
Preface by: William Inboden

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501760709

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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

Author / Editor information

Jonathan R. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the US Air War College. Follow him on Twitter @JRHunTx

Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is author of Engaging the Evil Empire.

Reviews

Kristina Spohr, London School of Economics, author of Post Wall, Post Square :

Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles have gathered a stimulating collection of essays, from a new generation of US historians, on Ronald Reagan's policies across all regions of the world.

Jason Parker, Texas A&M University, author of Hearts, Minds, Voices:

The Reagan Moment showcases the work of a rising generation of scholars born not long before the Berlin Wall fell. With diverse eyes, the authors contributing to this compelling volume encourage us to take a new look at these critical years in the 1980s.

Timothy Andrews Sayle, University of Toronto, author of Enduring Alliance:

The Reagan Moment is the authoritative text on the world Ronald Reagan's administration played a part in making. It covers all of the policies, people, and places of this crucial era. This book is impressive.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword: Reagan in the World William Inboden Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Man, or the Moment? Jonathan R. Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Global and Domestic Issues
1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War Melvyn P. Leffler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Energy and the End of the Evil Empire David S. Painter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Reagan and the Evolution of US Counterterrorism Christopher J. Fuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
4. Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits, Capital Flows, and the International Economy Michael De Groot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Part Two: Western and Eastern Europe
5. Confronting the Soviet Threat: Reagan’s Approach to Policymaking Elizabeth C. Charles and James Graham Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years Susan Colbourn and Mathias Haeussler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. Ronald Reagan and the Nuclear Freeze Movement Stephanie Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Part Three: Human Rights and Domestic Politics
8. Rhetoric and Restraint: Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam Syndrome Mark Atwood Lawrence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
9. Compartmentalizing US Foreign Policy: Human Rights in the Reagan Years Sarah B. Snyder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10. Between Values and Action: Religious Rhetoric, Human Rights, and Reagan’s Foreign Policy Lauren F. Turek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Part Four: Latin America
11. Reframing Human Rights: Reagan’s “Project Democracy” and the US Intervention in Nicaragua William Michael Schmidli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
12. Reagan and Pinochet’s Chile: The Diplomacy of Disillusion Evan D. McCormick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
13. Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981–1989 James Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
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 Seth Anziska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
15. The Central Front of Reagan’s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan Robert B. Rakove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
16. The Reagan Administration and the Cold War Endgame in the Periphery: The Case of Southern Africa Flavia Gasbarri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
Part Six: South and East Asia
17. Reagan and the Crisis of Southwest Asia Elisabeth Leake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
18. Adam Smith’s Arthritis: Japan and the Fears of American Decline Jennifer M. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
19. One World, Two Chinas: Dreams of Capitalist Convergence in East Asia Jonathan R. Hunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
Conclusion: Reagan Reconsidered Simon Miles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 480
Keywords: Cold war in the 1980s; legacies of the cold war today; US foreign policies during the Reagan administration; international relations in the 1980s; Reagan administration

eBook

Published: December 15, 2021
ISBN: 9781501760709