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During the first two years of Ronald Reagan's second term the
United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with
conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of
this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the
first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment
and sought to "roll-back" the gains of communism. However, the
Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the
emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a
vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit
of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua
demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a
more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book
examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a
precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign
nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the
United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad
definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that
often violated traditional norms of international law and
recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the
precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the
United States sought to respond to an escalation of global
terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s
transformed how and when the United States applied force in the
world.
During the first two years of Ronald Reagan's second term the
United States developed an offensive strategy for dealing with
conflict in the developing world. Nicaragua was a primary target of
this policy. Scholars refer to this as the Reagan offensive: the
first time that the United States eschewed the norms of containment
and sought to "roll-back" the gains of communism. However, the
Reagan offensive was also significantly driven by a response to the
emergent threat of international terrorism. Terrorism provided a
vehicle that justified its use of aggressive proxy war and pursuit
of regime change in Central America. U.S. policy with Nicaragua
demonstrates the importance of terrorism to the development of a
more aggressive United States in the post-Cold War world. This book
examines the influence of the U.S.-Contra War in establishing a
precedent for the use of overt pre-emptive force against sovereign
nations in the name of counterterrorism. In the 21st century, the
United States undertook a policy with the world based on a broad
definition of self-defense that called for an array of actions that
often violated traditional norms of international law and
recognition of sovereign rights. This book demonstrates that the
precedent for this change occurred in the late Cold War as the
United States sought to respond to an escalation of global
terrorism. The emergent problem of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s
transformed how and when the United States applied force in the
world.
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