The Grand Strategy of Ronald Reagan

The Great Issues Series
Date: 
Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Event Location: 
Miller Center

Panel with Hal Brands, Malcolm Byrne, James Graham Wilson

http://millercenter.org/events/2014/the-grand-strategy-of-ronald-reagan 

This event will be webcast live.

Ronald Reagan has been hailed as one of the nation’s most successful presidents in the realm of foreign affairs. Though he came into office with harsh views of the Soviet Union, he found a way to reach out to the Russians and build a relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev that began to unwind the Cold War. But scholars continue to debate whether Reagan was following a carefully mapped out strategy. Were his foreign policy moves improvised or part of a grand plan? And how did the crises he faced during his time in office, especially Iran-Contra, impact his ability to conduct foreign policy? The Miller Center’s GREAT ISSUES series will kick off a lively debate with three experts on the Reagan years, including HAL BRANDS, assistant professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University; MALCOLM BYRNE, deputy director and director of research at the nongovernmental National Security Archive at George Washington University; and JAMES GRAHAM WILSONfrom the Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State.

This event is part of…

The Great Issues Series: Under the direction of Miller Center scholar and Associate Professor of Public Policy Guian McKee, the Great Issues program provides scholarly expertise on a wide range of policy issues for the public, the media, and the policy community, with an aim towards increasing public discourse about national and global challenges.