TY - BOOK ID - 46207846 TI - The Reagan Administration, the Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion AU - Pee, Robert. AU - Schmidli, William Michael. PY - 2019 SN - 3319963821 3319963813 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - United States-History. KW - World politics. KW - History, Modern. KW - World history. KW - US History. KW - Political History. KW - Modern History. KW - World History, Global and Transnational History. KW - Universal history KW - History KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - World history KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - United States—History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46207846 AB - 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 Democracy (NED), in shaping a new model of democracy promotion, characterized by aid to foreign political movements and the spread of neoliberal economics. The book discusses the ideological, strategic and organizational aspects of U.S. democracy promotion in the 1980s, then analyzes case studies of democracy promotion in the Soviet bloc and in U.S.-allied dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia, and, finally, reflects on the legacy of Reagan’s democracy promotion and its influence on Clinton, Bush and Obama. Based on new research and archival documents, this book shows that the development of democracy promotion under Reagan laid the foundations for US post-Cold War foreign policy. ER -