University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about his hero Mikhail Gorbachev, whom Willerton claims transformed his country ...
Trump and Putin are scheduled to meet on August 15, echoing the historic Reagan-Gorbachev summits of the 1980s. The article explores the potential for a renewed "peace dividend" if diplomatic progress ...
George Shultz took office as President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state in July 1982. At the time, Leonid Brezhnev still sat atop the Soviet system. For years before that, the Soviet Union had ...
In an interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen in the Nation, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that George HW Bush told him in 1987 “Reagan is a conservative. An extreme ...
Question: What do 3,614 journalists do in a picturesque Swiss city when a couple of bigwig visitors declare a news blackout? Answer: They pester government spokesmen about whether Ronald Reagan was ...
The Cold War was over. For years, many of America's political leaders and most established foreign-policy experts, such as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, had spoken of the conflict between the two ...
The death of Michel Gorbachev in 2022 reminds me of the failure of American foreign policy to seize the opportunity to make the world a safer place for democracy and all living things. The period in ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 12, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, ...
The WTH team continues our #WTH to read this summer series with a pod on The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by Will Inboden (Director of the Hamilton Center at the ...
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