HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Able Archer 83, Reagan Doctrine, Caspar Weinberger
Document Summary
Reagan was a believe rof neo conservatism: number of trends in it, democrats that were disillusioned with d tente, and people against keynesian economics joined it, objective was to re-achieve dominance of usa in political and economic terms. First objective was to settle down the ussr. This manifested itself in the reagan doctrine with containment and liberalization: containment was present since the 40s, in that sense there is nothing new in the. Reagan doctrine: new element was liberalization desire to limit communist influence and liberate areas in the third world from communist influence. In the past, the us denied taking an aggressive approach to foreign policy, reagan did not. He acknowledged the aggressive element of his policy and as a result the international system was unstable. They were disappointed with reagan who wanted beef with them and an active opposition to communism: gromynko, soviet ambassador saw reagan as undermining the progress of his predecessors.
