NEOCONSERVATISM IN FOREIGN POLICY OF RONALD REAGAN (1980’s)

Abstract

The basic approaches to the analysis of the formation of US foreign policy during the 1980’s has been searched in the article; evolution of geostrategic configuration of the world during the final period of the Cold War has been analyzed. Conceptual, functional and political peculiarities of the development and implementation of US foreign policy strategy has been defined. A tactics that allowed by the R. Reagan administration would have on the victory over the Soviet Union in the course of systematic opposition has been revealed. Global, regional and national components of the R. Reagan’s «grand strategy» has been systematized and the reasons for its victory in the embodiment of political practice; the internal rate of White House motives for the development and implementation of the anti-communist strategy has been clarified. The analysis of R. Reagan’s policy toward the Soviet Union as the main component of the US global strategy aimed at ensuring conditions for the implementation of the «American Dream», rooted in the ideology of «manifest destiny» has been provided.

Keywords

• the usa
• the ussr
• «cold war»
• ideology