The Reagan moment : America and the world in the 1980s / / edited by Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828023703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021
• ISBN: 1-5017-6068-8; 1-5017-6071-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (477 pages)
• Collana: Cornell scholarship online
• Disciplina: 973.927092
• Soggetti: United States Foreign relations 1981-1989
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Global and Domestic Issues -- Western and Eastern Europe -- Human Rights and Domestic Politics -- Latin America -- The Middle East and Africa -- South and East Asia
• Sommario/riassunto: In 'The Reagan Moment', the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to Latin America; the People's Republic of China moved to privatize, decentralize, and open its economy; Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda; and relations between Washington and Moscow thawed en route to the Soviet Union's dissolution. This title places US foreign relations into global context by examining the economic, international, and ideational relationships that bound Washington to the wider world.