Reagan and the world : leadership and national security, 1981-1989 / edited by Bradley Lynn Coleman and Kyle Longley ; foreword by Jack Matlock Jr.

Contributor Coleman, Bradley Lynn, 1973- editor.

Imprint:Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2017]

Descriptionxiv, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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