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Reagan and the world : leadership and national security, 1981-1989 /

Pundits and scholars alike have argued over President Ronald Reagan's legacy. Many consider him a charismatic, consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism. To others he was an ambitious and dangerous warmonger whose presidency was plagued with mismanagement, misconduc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coleman, Bradley Lynn, 1973- (Editor ), Longley, Kyle (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
Colección:Studies in conflict, diplomacy, and peace.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bradley Lynn Coleman and Kyle Longley
  • Part I. Ronald Reagan and the national security establishment
  • Ronald Reagan's engagement and the Cold War / James Graham Wilson
  • A question of morality: Ronald Reagan and nuclear weapons / Beth A. Fischer
  • Beyond Cap the foil: Weinberger and the Reagan-era defense buildup / Ronald J. Granieri
  • Transformative leadership on Capitol Hill: the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act / James R. Locher III
  • Part II. The Soviet Union and Europe
  • Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the end of the Cold War / Archie Brown
  • For better and for worse: Ronald Reagan's relationship with Margaret Thatcher, 1981-1983 / James Cooper
  • The sense of history: Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand / William I. Hitchcock
  • Navigating choppy waters: US-German relations during the last decade of the Cold War / David F. Patton
  • Part III. Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East
  • Ronald Reagan and the puzzles of "so-called Communist China" and Vietnam / Michael Schaller
  • An obsession: the Central American policy of the Reagan Administration / Kyle Longley
  • Toward an ecological frontier: environmental policy, economic development, and US-Mexican relations during the Reagan presidency / Evan R. Ward
  • Stranger in a dangerous land: Reagan and Lebanon, 1981-1984 / Charles F. Brower IV
  • Researching Reagan: a guide for scholars of national security policy during the Ronald Reagan presidency / Ryan Carpenter.