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In a narrative-redefining approach, this book dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years between 1980 and 1985, the book shows that covert engagement gave way to overt conversation as both superpowers determined that open diplomacy was the best means of furthering their own, primarily competitive, goals. The book details the history of these dramatic years, as President Ronald Reagan consistently applied a disciplined carrot-and-stick approach, reaching out to Moscow while at the same time excoriating the Soviet system and building up US military capabilities.

Cold War. --- World politics --- Coexistence (World politics) --- Peaceful coexistence --- United States --- Soviet Union --- Foreign relations --- Ronald Reagan grand strategy, Soviet General Secretary between Brezhnev and Gorbachev, second cold war, Cold War between 1980 and 1985,. --- Cold War

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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.

Reagan, Ronald. --- United States --- Foreign relations