The Reagan Moment : : America and the World in the 1980s / / ed. by Jonathan R. Hunt, Simon Miles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Anziska, Seth,; Cameron, James,; Charles, Elizabeth C.,; Colbourn, Susan,; De Groot, Michael,; Freeman, Stephanie,; Fuller, Christopher J.,; Gasbarri, Flavia,; Haeussler, Mathias,; Hunt, Jonathan R.,; Inboden, William,; Lawrence, Mark Atwood,; Leake, Elisabeth,; Leffler, Melvyn P.,; McCormick, Evan D.,; Miles, Simon,; Miller, Jennifer M.,; Painter, David S.,; Rakove, Robert B.,; Schmidli, William Michael,; Snyder, Sarah B.,; Turek, Lauren F.,; Wilson, James Graham,
• HerausgeberIn: Hunt, Jonathan R.,; Miles, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

The figure of Ronald Reagan towers over the 1980s, when the United States ascended from stagnation and decline to retake the heights of global primacy, spreading markets and elections liberally about the globe even as it re-consolidated capital and influence for itself. In The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped that decade 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Reagan in the World -- Introduction: The Man, or the Moment? -- Part One: Global and Domestic Issues -- 1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War -- 2. Energy and the End of the Evil Empire -- 3. Reagan and the Evolution of US Counterterrorism -- 4. Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits, Capital Flows, and the International Economy -- Part Two: Western and Eastern Europe -- 5. Confronting the Soviet Threat: Reagan’s Approach to Policymaking -- 6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years -- 7. Ronald Reagan and the Nuclear Freeze Movement -- Part Three: Human Rights and Domestic Politics -- 8. Rhetoric and Restraint: Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam Syndrome -- 9. Compartmentalizing US Foreign Policy: Human Rights in the Reagan Years -- 10. Between Values and Action: Religious Rhetoric, Human Rights, and Reagan’s Foreign Policy -- Part Four: Latin America -- 11. Reframing Human Rights: Reagan’s “Project Democracy” and the US Intervention in Nicaragua -- 12. Reagan and Pinochet’s Chile: The Diplomacy of Disillusion -- 13. Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981–1989 -- 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 -- 15. The Central Front of Reagan’s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan -- 16. The Reagan Administration and the Cold War Endgame in the Periphery: The Case of Southern Africa -- Part Six: South and East Asia -- 17. Reagan and the Crisis of Southwest Asia -- 18. Adam Smith’s Arthritis: Japan and the Fears of American Decline -- 19. One World, Two Chinas: Dreams of Capitalist Convergence in East Asia -- Conclusion: Reagan Reconsidered -- List of Contributors -- Index