Author: Bradley Lynn Coleman File Type: pdf p Segoe UIThroughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan sought peace through strength during an era of historic change. In the decades since, pundits and scholars have argued over the presidents legacy some consider Reagan a charismatic and consummate leader who renewed American strength and defeated communism. To others he was an ambitious and dangerous warmonger whose presidency was plagued with mismanagement, misconduct, and foreign policy failures. The recent declassification of Reagan administration records and the availability of new Soviet documents has created an opportunity for more nuanced, complex, and compelling analyses of this pivotal period in international affairs.p Segoe UIInReagan and the World,leading scholars and national security professionals offer fresh interpretations of the fortieth presidents influence on American foreign policy. This collection addresses Reagans management of the US national security establishment as well as the influence of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and others in the administration and Congress. The contributors present in-depth explorations of US-Soviet relations and American policy toward Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East. This balanced and sophisticated examination reveals the complexity of Reagans foreign policy, clarifies the importance of other international actors of the period, and provides new perspectives on the final decade of the Cold War.p Segoe UI**h3 Segoe UIReviewp Segoe UIReagan and the Worldis filled with lessons for current and future leaders. Its authors help us understand how the past shapes the world today, including the intricate US relationship with Russia.Admiral James G. Stavridis, U.S. Navy (ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, NATOp Segoe UIColeman and Longley have assembled a terrific line-up of contributors, and both are accomplished scholars whose reputations and skills enhance this valuable contribution to understanding a contested presidency.Richard H. Immerman, author ofEmpire for Liberty A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitzp Segoe UIh3 Segoe UIAbout the Authorp Segoe UIBradley Lynn Colemanis the director of the John A. Adams 71 Center for Military History & Strategic Analysis at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author ofColombia and the United States The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 19391960.p Segoe UIKyle Longleyis the Snell Family Deans Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of six books, includingDeconstructing Reagan Conservative Mythology and Americas Fortieth President.

Author: Carter Vaughn Findley File Type: pdf From the authors preface Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambuls splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name was used, or what aspect of the Ottoman government it properly designated. What was the real Sublime Porte? Was it an organization? A building? No more, literally, than a door or gateway? What about it was important enough to cause the name to be remembered? In one sense, the purpose of this book is to answer these questions. Of course, it will also do much more and will, in the process, move quickly onto a plane quite different from the exoticism just invoked. For to study the bureaucratic complex properly known as the Sublime Porte, and to analyze its evolution and that of the body of men who staffed it, is to explore a problem of tremendous significance for the development of the administrative institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic lands in general, and in some senses the entire non-Westerrn world. **

Author: Tanja Bührer File Type: pdf While the study of indigenous intermediaries is today the focus of some of the most interesting research in the historiography of colonialism, its roots extend back to at least the 1970s. The contributions to this volume revisit Ronald E. Robinsons theory of collaboration in a range of historical contexts by melding it with theoretical perspectives derived from postcolonial studies and transnational history. In case studies ranging globally over the course of four centuries, these essays offer nuanced explorations of the varied, complex interactions between imperial and local actors, with particular attention to those shifting and ambivalent roles that transcend simple binaries of colonizer and colonized. **

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