2012/01/01 by Ofira Seliktar · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #International Relations and Foreign Policy #Administration (probate law) #Conservatism #Political science #Communism #Democracy #Foreign policy #Realism #Public administration #Law #Economic history #History #Art #Politics #Literature
paper · doi:10.1057/9781137010889_4
openalex publication_date 2012/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
O n taking office in January 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced a dramatic break from his predecessor’s foreign policy. In a novel mixture of muscular realism and moralism, the new administration called for challenging communism and its standard-bearer, the Soviet Union. Reagan’s philosophy, subsequently dubbed neo conservatism, asserted the Soviet Union was “on the wrong side of history” and would be consigned to the “dust-bin of history.” To expedite the process, the White House helped democracy develop in Eastern Europe and increased Moscow’s “cost of doing business” elsewhere by, for example, helping anticommunist insurgents in Nicaragua. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.