6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Reagan in the World ix
4. Introduction: The Man, or the Moment? 1
5. Part One: Global and Domestic Issues
6. 1. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War 25
7. 2. Energy and the End of the Evil Empire 43
8. 3. Reagan and the Evolution of US Counterterrorism 64
9. 4. Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits, Capital Flows, and the International Economy 84
10. Part Two: Western and Eastern Europe
11. 5. Confronting the Soviet Threat: Reagan’s Approach to Policymaking 105
12. 6. Once More, with Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years 123
13. 7. Ronald Reagan and the Nuclear Freeze Movement 144
14. Part Three: Human Rights and Domestic Politics
15. 8. Rhetoric and Restraint: Ronald Reagan and the Vietnam Syndrome 165
16. 9. Compartmentalizing US Foreign Policy: Human Rights in the Reagan Years 188
17. 10. Between Values and Action: Religious Rhetoric, Human Rights, and Reagan’s Foreign Policy 212
18. Part Four: Latin America
19. 11. Reframing Human Rights: Reagan’s “Project Democracy” and the US Intervention in Nicaragua 237
20. 12. Reagan and Pinochet’s Chile: The Diplomacy of Disillusion 260
21. 13. Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981–1989 281
22. Part Five: The Middle East and Africa
23. 14. The Limits of Triumphalism in the Middle East: Israel, the Palestinian Question, and Lebanon in the Age of Reagan 303
24. 15. The Central Front of Reagan’s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan 324
25. 16. The Reagan Administration and the Cold War Endgame in the Periphery: The Case of Southern Africa 345
26. Part Six: South and East Asia
27. 17. Reagan and the Crisis of Southwest Asia 367
28. 18. Adam Smith’s Arthritis: Japan and the Fears of American Decline 387
29. 19. One World, Two Chinas: Dreams of Capitalist Convergence in East Asia 414
30. Conclusion: Reagan Reconsidered 437
31. List of Contributors 445
32. Index 449