The Reagan Moment

Jonathan R. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the US Air War College. Follow him on X @JRHunTx Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is author of Engaging the Evil Empire.

Introduction: The Man, or the Moment?, by Jonathan R. Hunt

Part One: Global and Domestic Issues

1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War, by Melvyn P. Leffler

2. Energy and the End of the Evil Empire, by David Painter

3. Reagan and the Evolution of US Counterterrorism, by Christopher Fuller

4. Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits,Capital Flows, and the International Economy, by Michael De Groot

Part Two: Western and Eastern Europe

5. Confronting the Soviet Threat: Reagan's Approach to Policymaking, by Elizabeth Charles and James Wilson

6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years, by Susan Colbourn and Mathias Haeussler

7. Ronald Reagan and the Nuclear Freeze Movement, by Stephanie Freeman

Part Three: Human Rights and Domestic Politics

8. Rhetoric and Restraint: Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam Syndrome, by Mark Atwood Lawrence

9. Compartmentalizing US Foreign Policy: Human Rights in the Reagan Years, by Sarah Snyder

10. Between Values and Action: Religious Rhetoric, Human Rights, and Reagan's Foreign Policy, by Lauren Frances Turek

Part Four: Latin America

11. Reframing Human Rights: Reagan's "Project Democracy" and the US Intervention in Nicaragua, by William Michael Schmidli

12. Reagan and Pinochet's Chile: The Diplomacy of Disillusion, by Evan D. McCormick

13. Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981–1989, by James Cameron

Part Five: The Middle East and Africa

14. The Limits of Triumphalism in the Middle East: Israel, the Palestinian Question, and Lebanon in the Age of Reagan, by Seth Anziska

15. The Central Front of Reagan's Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan, by Robert Rakove

16. The Reagan Administration and the Cold War Endgame in the Periphery: The Case of Southern Africa, by Flavia Gasbarri

Part Six: South and East Asia

17. Reagan and the Crisis of Southwest Asia, by Elisabeth Mariko Leake

18. Adam Smith's Arthritis: Japan and the Fears of American Decline, by Jennifer Miller

19. One World, Two Chinas: Dreams of Capitalist Convergence in East Asia, by Jonathan R. Hunt

Conclusion: Reagan Reconsidered, by Simon Miles