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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2017.
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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.