The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion, 1st ed. 2019 Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World Series
This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration?s Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy promotion, characterized by aid to foreign political movements and the spread of neoliberal economics. The book discusses the ideological, strategic and organizational aspects of U.S. democracy promotion in the 1980s, then analyzes case studies of democracy promotion in the Soviet bloc and in U.S.-allied dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia, and, finally, reflects on the legacy of Reagan?s democracy promotion and its influence on Clinton, Bush and Obama. Based on new research and archival documents, this book shows that the development of democracy promotion under Reagan laid the foundations for US post-Cold War foreign policy.
Robert Pee is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration. His research focuses on U.S. democracy promotion during the Cold War and the War on Terror.
William Michael Schmidli is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a U.S. foreign relations historian, and his research focuses on the evolving significance of human rights, democracy promotion, and transnational advocacy networks from the Cold War to the present.
Argues that democracy promotion emerged as a central pillar of US foreign policy during the Reagan Administration, with significant implications for post-Cold War international relations
Draws on recent declassified US government documents, non-governmental human rights organizations’ records and overseas archives
Chapters cover a range of examples of American democracy promotion, from Eastern Europe to Latin America to Asia
Date de parution : 12-2018
Ouvrage de 336 p.
14.8x21 cm
