Politics Assignment 2 FOR PROF JAMES

Professor Ibrahim Alsaeed

02 November 2017

PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S DOCTRINE

Introduction

The cold war in the US was as a result of the long struggle for the international or global supremacy. It existed in the US between the communist Soviet Union against the Capitalist that is the United States in 1945. The war entailed technological competition between the western powers and the communists, economic and political conflicts. The war was termed as a Cold War because both nations expressed their fight through nuclear technology, espionage, propaganda, and coalitions.

Other than Diplomacy, which include negotiations between two government or ruling powers who come to a neutral consensus to solve political or economic affairs without fighting each other. In my paper, I chose to write about Ronald Reagan who was the 40th U.S President (1981-1989), and this was the time that his doctrine came into effect during the cold war. It played an important role in weakening the Soviet Union. The primary objective of this doctrine was to sponsor anti-Communist guerrillas who are trying to overthrow pro-Soviet regimes (Roskin 2018, pg 106).

Summarize a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during the president’s time in office.

The Reagan doctrine focused on the expansion of his former leader Carter doctrine. His theory showed an unashamed support of America in the anti-communist revolution. Moreover, the principle delivered all its promises to the US citizens through the help of Afghanistan mujahedeen in overthrowing the Soviet ruling. Later, this combination brought to an end the occupation of Soviets that were present in Afghanistan illegally. Ronald had a high opinion on the anti-communist side a reason that made him join power based on his standpoint with the political movement in the U.S. During his term in office he called this move as the Evil Empire in which he fought to have the U.S policy articulated. It was through several chains of policymakers under his command with the aim of returning the U.S policy (Johnsen, 2003).Moreover, Reagan was focused on the uniting the citizens and returning to each continent their Soviet aggression. He formed the rollback policy that was first initiated by Foster Dulles in 1950’s but was not functional. In his statement, Reagan said that his doctrine content was determined in reducing the Soviet Union massive influence across the borders. The overexpansion of the Soviet Union in the Middle East and Indies became a significant threat to the U.S presidents in the Cold War as these were areas where they could extract their oil for the economic market.

Based on the new administration that Reagan formed he ensured that the staffs maintained a high level of integrity, togetherness, and trustworthiness at their workplaces. It was to ensure that they commit themselves to serving the interests of the U.S allies and the citizens in supporting them resist or oppose the Soviet initiatives in their motherland (Pach, 2006). The Insurgents in the war got proffered support by the Reagan staffs, and when the Soviet questioned on their weapons, Reagan stated that the tools were made to fight the communist only to be turned against them to win their sovereignty back without any physical fights between the two blocks.

Explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed, concerning specific actions or events that occurred.

During the presidency of Reagan, he adequately criticized the Soviet Union thereby insisting on a military participation and backup. Further, he mentioned in a press meeting that the Soviet has a lot of immoral behavior as they cheat and do several offenses to ensure their agenda passed that will make them remain in power. Some diplomats consider the Reagan doctrine as an innovation that served his country as well as Central America in defeating their opponent during a war, for instance, the revolutionary front of 1979 that was applied in removing Somoza from power.

The participation of insurgencies from Afghanistan and receiving assistance from the allies fought hard in destabilizing the Soviet ruling in the U.S. Ideally, in the process of the existed cold war the U.S government noticed that their greatest enemy was the communist Soviet (Schaller, 1994). It made them have some allies deployed to the remote parts around the globe in protecting the country. Following the fact that most nations preferred the communist style of leadership, the Reagan doctrine among others formed during this regime hade a lot of significance to the people. For example, removing the Soviet expansion and Reagan doctrine upon receiving advisers was effected in 1986 in which it received massive support to diminish the superpower communist. The principle won in removing the Soviet Union and the anti-aircrafts used were reserved to act as a sign of America’s success in history defeating their communist in the Cold War.

Describe the effects of these diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries.

President Reagan doctrine was used in many ways dependable on the local condition of the area. Its implementation based on military, political, psychological and economic warfare for assisting the anti-communist allies during their fight against the enemy. Additionally, the communist never understood the hidden meaning of the doctrine that was avoiding a straight intervention of US military in the war. Preferably, the people that had a great responsibility to the theory were the Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan that voluntarily supported the U.S by giving financial support, anti-craft guns and weapons (Ali &Dong, 2015).

Assess, in conclusion, the advantages, and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that followed.

In conclusion, the Reagan doctrine successfully gave the US their diplomacy back after the falling of the Soviet Union in 1990. In turn, this was again to the US in their technology industry dealing with the military in fighting a war. I can state that Reagan was one leader who knew that to defeat an enemy one must deploy all the skills and knowledge he has as well listening to his citizens’ ideas. A drawback in this doctrine was that the policy formed in helping the mujahedeen le to a slow down as the armed civilians in the US never shared their interest with the Soviet. Again, when Rumsfeld joined George Bush in helping Saddam Hussein and using dictatorship in fighting the Iran’s made the two leaders to be enemies making the US military to have more powerful weapons

References

Roskin, M., & Berry, N. O., (2018). IR: The New World of International Relations (11th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Longman/Pearson Education.

Ali, I., & Dong, X. (2015). The Revenge Game: US Foreign Policy during Afghan-Soviet War and Afghan-Pakistan Falling Into Hell. Asian Social Science, 11(27). Retrieved from

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/viewFile/49226/29351