Reagan Doctrine

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United States foreign policy foreign policy doctrine

The Reagan Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy strategy in the 1980s that aimed to roll back Soviet influence by providing support to anti-communist resistance movements around the world.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Reagan Doctrine canonical	7
Reagan administration foreign policy	3
NSDD-75 U.S. Relations with the USSR	1
Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine	1
Reagan Doctrine-era interventions	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States foreign policy ⓘ foreign policy doctrine ⓘ
aims	rollback of Soviet influence ⓘ support of anti-communist movements ⓘ undermining Soviet-backed governments ⓘ
appliesTo	Afghanistan ⓘ Angola ⓘ Cambodia ⓘ Chad ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Ethiopia ⓘ Grenada ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ Nicaragua ⓘ Poland ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
appliesToPoliticalIdeology	anti-communism ⓘ New Right ⓘ surface form: neoconservatism
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
describedAs	policy of supporting freedom fighters against Soviet-backed regimes ⓘ
describedBySource	National Security Decision Directives of the Reagan administration ⓘ
endTime	1989 ⓘ
facetOf	Reagan Doctrine self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Reagan administration foreign policy Second Cold War ⓘ
followedBy	Bush foreign policy toward post-Cold War world ⓘ
follows	Carter Doctrine ⓘ Nixon Doctrine ⓘ containment policy ⓘ
hasCause	U.S. desire to move from containment to rollback ⓘ perception of Soviet expansionism ⓘ
hasEffect	Iran–Contra affair ⓘ controversy over human rights abuses by U.S.-backed groups ⓘ escalation of proxy conflicts ⓘ increased U.S. covert operations ⓘ pressure on Soviet Union’s global commitments ⓘ support for Afghan mujahideen ⓘ support for Khmer resistance factions in Cambodia ⓘ support for Nicaraguan Contras ⓘ support for UNITA in Angola ⓘ
hasPart	covert assistance to resistance movements ⓘ overt military and economic aid ⓘ support for anti-communist insurgencies ⓘ
inception	1980s ⓘ
mainSubject	Cold War ⓘ United States–Soviet Union relations ⓘ surface form: Soviet–United States relations
namedAfter	Ronald Reagan ⓘ
opposedBy	Soviet Union ⓘ U.S. Congress members critical of covert wars ⓘ human rights organizations ⓘ
partOf	U.S. Cold War strategy ⓘ
significantPerson	Caspar Weinberger ⓘ Elliott Abrams ⓘ George P. Shultz ⓘ Jeane Kirkpatrick ⓘ Ronald Reagan ⓘ William J. Casey ⓘ
startTime	1981 ⓘ
statedIn	Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address ⓘ Ronald Reagan’s March 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Reagan–Gorbachev summits → relatedDoctrine → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Urgent Fury → partOf → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reagan Doctrine-era interventions

United States foreign policy → historicalDoctrine → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Reagan Doctrine → facetOf → Reagan Doctrine self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reagan administration foreign policy

Reagan administration → foreignPolicyDoctrine → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Carter Doctrine → influenced → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reagan Corollary to the Carter Doctrine

Carter Doctrine → relatedTo → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address → politicalContext → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

National Security Decision Directives of the Reagan administration → hasPart → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

this entity surface form: NSDD-75 U.S. Relations with the USSR

Dictatorships and Double Standards → influenced → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reagan administration foreign policy

United States interventions in Latin America → hasDoctrinalBasis → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Operation Golden Pheasant → isPartOfDoctrine → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy → describes → Reagan Doctrine ⓘ

this entity surface form: Reagan administration foreign policy