Cornell University Press The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s

Review Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles have gathered a stimulating collection of essays, from a new generation of US historians, on Ronald Reagan's policies across all regions of the world. -- Kristina Spohr, London School of Economics, author of Post Wall, Post Square Product Description 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. The Reagan Moment places US foreign relations into global context by examining the economic, international, and ideational relationships that bound Washington to the wider world. Editors Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles bring together a cohort of scholars with fresh insights from untapped and declassified global sources to recast Reagan's pivotal years in power. Contributors: Seth Anziska, James Cameron, Elizabeth Charles, Susan Colbourn, Michael De Groot, Stephanie Freeman, Christopher Fuller, Flavia Gasbarri, Mathias Haeussler, William Inboden, Mark Atwood Lawrence, Elisabeth Mariko Leake, Melvyn P. Leffler, Evan D. McCormick, Jennifer Miller, David Painter, Robert Rakove, William Michael Schmidli, Sarah Snyder, Lauren Frances Turek, James Wilson About the Author Jonathan R. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Strategy at the US Air War College. Follow him on Twitter @JRHunTx Simon Miles is Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is author of Engaging the Evil Empire.