Intervention & the Reagan Doctrine
Author | : Robert W. Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert W. Tucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James M. Scott |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822317890 |
Using a comparative case study method, Scott examines the historical, intellectual, and ideological origins of the Reagan Doctrine as it was applied to Afghanistan, Angola, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Scott draws on many previously unavailable government documents and a wide range of primary material to show both how this policy in particular, and American foreign policy in general, emerges from the complex, shifting interactions between the White House, Congress, bureaucratic agencies, and groups and individuals from the private sector."--
Author | : A. G. Kluge Melton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Intervention (International law) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Sean Donnelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Holly Sklar |
Publisher | : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780896082137 |
Demystifies U.S. foreign policy in the 80s and explores the policy options of rollback, moderate containment, and neoliberal containment. Uses the example of Nicaragua to unravel pretexts for U.S. intervention throughout the Third World.
Author | : Christopher C. DeMuth |
Publisher | : A E I Press |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Michael Schmidli |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2022-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501765167 |
In Freedom on the Offensive, William Michael Schmidli illuminates how the Reagan administration's embrace of democracy promotion was a defining development in US foreign relations in the late twentieth century. Reagan used democracy promotion to refashion the bipartisan Cold War consensus that had collapsed in the late 1960s amid opposition to the Vietnam War. Over the course of the 1980s, the initiative led to a greater institutionalization of human rights—narrowly defined to include political rights and civil liberties and to exclude social and economic rights—as a US foreign policy priority. Democracy promotion thus served to legitimize a distinctive form of US interventionism and to underpin the Reagan administration's aggressive Cold War foreign policies. Drawing on newly available archival materials, and featuring a range of perspectives from top-level policymakers and politicians to grassroots activists and militants, this study makes a defining contribution to our understanding of human rights ideas and the projection of American power during the final decade of the Cold War. Using Reagan's undeclared war on Nicaragua as a case study in US interventionism, Freedom on the Offensive explores how democracy promotion emerged as the centerpiece of an increasingly robust US human rights agenda. Yet, this initiative also became intertwined with deeply undemocratic practices that misled the American people, violated US law, and contributed to immense human and material destruction. Pursued through civil society or low-cost military interventions and rooted in the neoliberal imperatives of US-led globalization, Reagan's democracy promotion initiative had major implications for post–Cold War US foreign policy.
Author | : Lindsey A. O'Rourke |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501730681 |
States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d’état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups. In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O’Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O’Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?
Author | : Gail E. S. Yoshitani |
Publisher | : Foreign Relations and the Pres |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Yoshitani uses three case studies from the Reagan administration’s first term in office Central America and two deployments in Lebanon to analyze how the administration grappled with using military force in pursuit of national interests.
Author | : Philip W. Travis |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498537189 |
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan’s second term the United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment and sought to “roll-back” the gains of communism. However, the Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that often violated traditional norms of international law and recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the United States sought to respond to an escalation of global terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s transformed how and when the United States applied force in the world.