Please create a dissertation plan accorording to the information below. Create an more specific outline for a dissertation, with one full chapter finished. Please use the information below and sources too.
Dissertation aim:
To assess the influence of Reagan administration
towards the outcomes of cold war, and overall world order.
Objectives:
To consider how, and to what
level Reagan’s administration influenced the fall of USSR. First objective is
to introduce the environment of cold war, and what actions shaped the world order
prior to Reagan’s administration. Afterwards, the dissertation main goal is to
prove that Reagan’s administration, indeed by its actions, managed to speed up
the process of destruction of the iron curtain, and USSR as well.
Assessment of Reagan politics
during his presidency, and towards upcoming future after Reagan presidency.
Make the point:
-Distinguish what lead
towards Reagan’s ideas, and action.
Second
Order Analysis/questions (possible chapters?):
USA, and USSR
relationship during, and after WWII.
-the aim is to create a
brief introduction to the actions that lead to the creation of iron curtain.
– conferences that shaped
the post war order
– Creation of UN
– Marshall plan
-Berlin crisis
-creation of NATO
Ronald Reagans politics,
and its foreign policy outcomes.
-Key actions during cold war that lead towards
escalations of the conflict among USA, and USSR. How those actions influenced Reagan
politics?
-G.F.Kennan telegram, and
its influence on Reagan
-Reagan presidential campaign
–what lead towards his success? (Deregulation, lower taxes, less government) –
reshaping the republican party -populism (government the enemy)
-Development of Reagans diplomacy, and foreign
policy towards USSR
Was the
influence of Ronald Reagans politics key for the fall of USSR, and iron
curtain? Legacy of “City upon a Hill” in Reagans, and republican politics – American
exceptionalism
-1st term of
Reagans presidency
-Strategy that was implemented
by Reagan to reduce USSRs power.
-2nd term of
Reagans presidency
-Why USSR chose Gorbachov as
their leader, and how it changed the relationship with USA? – Reagan’s domination
over Gorbachov meant speeding up of the fall of iron curtain? Or Gorbachov
managed to see the inevitable fall of iron curtain, and managed to minimise the
damage?
Long-term negative
outcomes of Reagan politics.
-Destabilization of
countries, and governments that found themselves in hybrid warfare
-Reagan paradoxes -The road from
evil empire to stroll on the red square
between USA, and USSR. Anti-communist
politics. Proxy wars
-Did Reagan achieved all of
his goals? Denuclearization od USSR (later Russia)
-The end of cold war meant
the start of so-called “war on terror”? How Reagan narrative helped towards
this swift switch.
Initial
Conclusions
The Reagan
administration had an active role in the context of the end of cold war, and
with it the fall of USSR as well. Nonetheless, the fall of USSR was inevitable.
The Reagan administration mainly managed just to speed up the process. Nonetheless,
the cost of speeding up of this process is still persistent and felt till
today.
Self-reflective
note
Be brief in
other points that are not directly in correlation with the main argument, as
the theme of cold war is very broad, and therefore can lead to distractions
towards other ideas.
Relevant
primary sources
Arbatov,
A., 1993. Russia’s Foreign Policy Alternatives. International Security, 18(2),
p.5.
Cannon,
L., 2008. President Reagan. New York: PublicAffairs.
Dudziak,
M., 2014. War Time. Cary: Oxford University Press, USA.
Kaldor,
M., 2012. New and old wars. Cambridge [England]: Polity Press.
Reagan,
R., 2011. An American life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Weisberg,
J., n.d. Ronald Reagan.
Yurchak,
A., 2013. Everything was forever, until it was no more. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Zakaria,
F., 1990. The Reagan Strategy of Containment. Political Science Quarterly,
105(3), p.373.
Likely secondary sources
Betts, R., 2022. Conflict
after the Cold War. 4th ed. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group.
Brands, H., 2015. You’re
Remembering Reagan Wrong. [online] Available at:
[Accessed 10 April
2022].
HECLO, H., 2008. The Mixed
Legacies of Ronald Reagan. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 38(4), pp.555-574.
Hough, P., Moran, A.,
Pilbeam, B. and Stokes, W., 2021. International security studies. 2nd ed.
Routledge.
Howard, M., 2001. Grand
Strategy in the Twentieth Century. Defence Studies, 1(1), pp.1-10.
Moen, O., 1990. Frontier and
Region: The West and American Exceptionalism from John Winthrop to Ronald W.
Reagan. American Studies in Scandinavia, 22(2), pp.57-72.
Percy, S., 2012. Mercenaries.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pfiffner, J., 2013. The
Paradox of President Reagan’s Leadership. Presidential Studies Quarterly,
43(1), pp.81-100.
RENNENKAMPFF, M., 2020. Let’s
stop revising history: Reagan didn’t win the Cold War | The Hill. [online]
Thehill.com. Available at:
[Accessed 10 April 2022].