Book contents
- Before and After the Fall
- Before and After the Fall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Sources of Continuity and Change
- 1 Overcoming Stagnation
- 2 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 3 Peace Through Strength and Quiet Diplomacy
- 4 “Keeping Them Well Behind”
- 5 Only One Way Forward
- Part II Continuity and Change Across the 1989/1991 Divide
- Part III Toward a New World Order?
- Index
3 - Peace Through Strength and Quiet Diplomacy
Grand Strategy Lessons from the Reagan Administration
from Part I - Sources of Continuity and Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- Before and After the Fall
- Before and After the Fall
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Sources of Continuity and Change
- 1 Overcoming Stagnation
- 2 Mikhail Gorbachev
- 3 Peace Through Strength and Quiet Diplomacy
- 4 “Keeping Them Well Behind”
- 5 Only One Way Forward
- Part II Continuity and Change Across the 1989/1991 Divide
- Part III Toward a New World Order?
- Index
Summary
History remembers Ronald Reagan as the ultimate hard-liner, whose campaign of maximum pressure across domains brought down the Soviet Union. But there was more to the fortieth president’s approach to the Soviet Union than that: As much as he went on the offensive, he also advocated for sustained engagement with Soviet leaders. US foreign policy in the 1980s, thus, was every bit as much carrot as it was stick; and it offers a host of lessons about dealing with a resurgent and intransigent Russia today. This chapter will examine the core tenets of Reagan’s grand strategy, and what they — and their successes and failures — can tell us about the way forward in US foreign policy today.
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- Before and After the FallWorld Politics and the End of the Cold War, pp. 62 - 77Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021