The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pee, Robert (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schmidli, William Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
• Subjects: United States-History.; World politics.; History, Modern.; World history.; US History.; Political History.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

This book posits that democracy promotion played a key role in the Reagan administration's Cold War foreign policy. It analyzes the democracy initiatives launched under Reagan and the role of administration officials, neoconservatives and non-state actors, such as the National Endowment for Dem...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Reagan Administration and Democracy Promotion; Robert Pee and William Michael Schmidli
• Part I: Ideology, Strategy, and Institutional Change in the Shift towards Democracy Promotion
• Chapter 2: "A Positive Track of Human Rights Policy": Elliott Abrams, the Human Rights Bureau, and the Conceptualization of Democracy Promotion, 1981-1984; Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
• Chapter 3: The Rise of Political Aid: The National Endowment for Democracy and the Reagan Administration's Cold War strategy; Robert Pee
• Chapter 4: Recreating the Cold War Consensus: Democracy Promotion and the Crisis of American Hegemony; William Michael Schmidli
• Part II: U.S. Democracy Promotion and the Soviet Empire
• Chapter 5: The Reagan Administration's Efforts to Promote Human Rights and Democracy in the Soviet Union; Christian Peterson
• Chapter 6: The Autonomy of Solidarity; Gregory F. Domber
• Chapter 7: Neoliberalism and Democracy Promotion: Hernando de Soto and U.S. Foreign Policy; Kate Geoghegan
• Part III: Democracy Promotion and the Third World
• Chapter 8: U.S. Electoral Assistance to El Salvador and the Culture of Politics, 1982-1984; Evan D. McCormick
• Chapter 9: Reagan and the Waning Years of Uruguay's Military Rule: Democracy Promotion and the Redefinition of Human Rights; Debbie Sharnak
• Chapter 10: The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda; Mattias Fibiger
• Chapter 11: Stable Imperatives, Shifting Strategies: Reagan and Democracy Promotion in the Republic of Korea; Clint Work
• Part IV: Legacy
• Chapter 12: '"The Most Deeply Honorable Form of Government Ever Devised by Man:' Reagan, Human Rights, and Democracy"; Joe Renouard
• Chapter 13: Conclusion; Robert Pee and William Michael Schmidli.