President Reagan and the World

Subjects:

• Political Science » Presidential Studies
• Political Science » International Relations

Reviews:

• The book is well edited and indexed, and the discussions are candid and illuminating.... the book gives a balanced assessment of the Reagan administration's interaction with the world community and provides a good survey of the important international issues that arose during that administration.
  —Choice

Table of Contents:

• Preface by Eric J. Schmertz
• International Perspectives
• Foreign Policy
• Reagan's Foreign Policy: An Overview by Stephen A. Ambrose
• Ronald Reagan and the United Nations: His Policies and His Representation by Seymour Maxwell Finger
• Reagan and America's Democratic Mission by Whittle Johnston
• The Middle East
• The Reagan Plan: A Victim of Conflicting Approaches by the United States and Israel to the Syrian Presence in Lebanon by Samuel Segev
• The Soviet Union
• United States and Soviet Relations: Reagan's Real Role in Winning the Cold War by Kenneth L. Adelman
• Ronald Reagan and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty: Whatever Happened to the "Evil Empire?" by Betty Glad and Jean Garrison
• Ronald Reagan and the Illusion of Victory in the Cold War by John E. Ullmann
• International Terrorism
• Some Perspectives on International Terrorism and the Reagan Presidency: Threats and Responses by Yonah Alexander
• Dealing with Terrorism: The Reagan Record by Michael M. Gunter
• Defense Policy and Arms Control
• The Military Buildup by Dov S. Zakheim
• Defense, Budget Policy, and the Reagan Deficits by Dennis S. Ippolito
• The Privatization of Power: National Security Policy Entrepreneurs and Arms Control in the Reagan Administration by John Prados
• Iran-Contra
• Open Legal Questions Remaining after Iran-Contra by Eric M. Freedman
• Iran-Contra: Circumvention in Historical Perspective by Andrew S. Merrifield
• The President and National Security: Ronald Reagan's Attempt to Aid the Contras by David Mervin
• Ronald Reagan and Iran-Contra: The Consequences of Breaking Campaign Promises by Frank J. Smist, Jr. and John P. Meiers
• Domestic and International Economic Policy
• Profits without Growth: Privatizing the U.S. Economy in the 1980s by M. Mark Amen
• The International Trade Policies of President Ronald Reagan by William H. Lash III
• Macroeconomics and President Reagan: Victory over Inflation by David J. Smyth, Pami Dua, and Susan Washburn Taylor
• Latin America
• U.S.-Cuba Relations during the Reagan Administration by Antonio R. de la Cova
• Latin America: Was There a "Kirkpatrick Doctrine?" by Mark Falcoff
• Assessments
• Promises Made--Promises Kept by Maureen Reagan
• The Man Who Changed the World by Jean J. Kirkpatrick
• The Reagan Revolution in Historical Perspective Jack F. Kemp
• Presidential Historians and Biographers Assess the Reagan Presidency
• Hofstra University High School Colloquium
• Index