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The analysis in this chapter will focus on whether the dissociation of image and substance, which allegedly existed in his first term, continued during Reagan’s second term and whether the new policy elite significantly altered the balance of foreign policy. In his second term Reagan was confronted with the unravelling of the reality in which the Soviet Union was the source of the world’s ills. Did it become necessary for the new principate to completely reconstruct reality or did it merely need fine tuning?
There is only one way safely and legitimately to reduce the cost of national security, and that is to reduce the need for it … America must remain freedom’s staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world’s only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.
Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan, 21 January 1985
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Brady, C. (1999). The Second Reagan Administration, 1985–89. In: United States Foreign Policy towards Cambodia, 1977–92. Contemporary History in Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14845-5_5
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