Reagan's Legacy in a World Transformed / Jeffrey L. Chidester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chidester, Jeffrey L., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reagan, Ronald--Influence.

Reagan, Ronald.

United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reagan’s Legacy in a World Transformed offers a timely retrospective on the fortieth president’s policies and impact on today’s world, from the influence of free market ideas on economic globalization, to the role of an assertive military in U.S. foreign policy, to reduction of nuclear arsenals in the interest of stability.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Ronald Reagan and the New Age of Globalization

2. The “Great Expansion”: Th e Economic Legacy of Ronald Reagan

3. “The Balancer”: Ronald Reagan, Party Politics, and U.S. Grand Strategy

4. From Containment to Liberation: U.S. Strategy toward Eastern Europe

5. Reagan’s “March of Freedom” in a Changing World

6. Th e Beginning of a New U.S. Grand Strategy: Policy on Terror during the Reagan Era

7. Ronald Reagan and American Defense

8. A World of Fewer Nuclear Weapons: Ronald Reagan’s Willingness to Negotiate

9. Building Up and Seeking Peace: President Reagan’s Cold War Legacy

10. Ronald Reagan, Liberalism, and the Politics of Nuclear War and National Security, 1981–1985

11. Ronald Reagan’s Approach to the United Nations

12. Ronald Reagan, the Pragmatic Internationalist

Notes

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

"Foreword by Brian Mulroney"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-42622-3

0-674-42620-7

OCLC:

906026047