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Reagan Doctrine and Beyond THE REAGAN DOCTRINE AND BEYOND THE REAGAN DOCTRINE AND BEYOND Christopher C. DeMuth Owen Harries Irving Kristol Joshua Muravchik Stephen Rosenfeld Stephen Solarz American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. Distributed to the Trade by National Book Network, 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214. To order call toll free 1-800-462-6420 or 1-717-794-3800. For all other inquiries please contact the AEI Press, 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 or call 1-800-862-5801. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Reagan doctrine and beyond 1Christopher C. DeMuth ... [et al.]. p. em. Speeches delivered at public policy forum, 7/14/87, Amer­ ican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. 1. United States-Foreign relations-1981- .2. Reagan, Ronald. I. DeMuth, Christopher C. II. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. E876.R393 1988 327.73-dc 19 87-31958CIP ISBN 0-8447-2274-X (pbk. : alk. paper) AEI Forum 67 © 1987 by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission in writing from the American Enterprise Institute except in the case of brief quotations embodied in news articles, critical articles, or reviews. The views expressed in the publications of the American Enterprise Institute are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, advisory panels, officers, or trustees of AEI. "American Enterprise Institute" and @) are registered service marks of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Printed in the United States ofAmerica Participants CHRISTOPHER c. DEMuTH, president, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research OWEN HARRIES, AEI adjunct scholar and co-editor of The National Interest IRVING KRISTOL, AEI senior fellow and co-editor of The Public Interest JOSHUA MURAVCHIK, AEI resident scholar and author of The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy and "Maximum Feasible Con­ tainment," June 1987, in The New Republic STEPHEN ROSENFELD, deputy editorial page editor and col­ umnist, Washington Post STEPHEN SOLARZ (Democrat, New York), chairman, Sub­ committee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the House Foreign Affairs Committee The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Board of Trustees Founded in 1943, AEI is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, Willard C. Butcher, Chairman research and educational organization based in Chm. and CEO Washington, D.C. The Institute sponsors research, Chase Manhattan Bank conducts seminars and conferences, and publishes Paul F. 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Willis Robertson Herbert Stein Professor of Economics Director, Financial Markets Regulation Project Senior Fellow; Emeritus Editor, AEI Economist University of Virginia Karlyn H. Keene Edward Styles Murray L. Weidenbaum Resident Fellow; Managing Editor, Director, Publications Mallinckrodt Distinguished Public Opinion University Professor Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Sir Alan Walters Washington University Senior Fellow Senior Fellow James Q. Wilson Counselor to the President for Ben J. Wattenberg Foreign Policy Studies James Collins Professor of Senior Fellow; Management Marvin H. Kosters Coeditor, Public Opinion University of California at Resident Scholar; Director, Carolyn L. Weaver Los Angeles Economic Policy Studies Resident Scholar; Editor, Irving Kristol Regulation Senior Fellow John C. Weicher S. Robert Lichter F. K. Weyerhaeuser Scholar DeWitt Wallace Fellow Makoto Yokoyama Chong-Pin Lin Visiting Fellow Associate Director, China Studies Program HRISTOPHER C. DEMuTH, president, Amer­ ican Enterprise Institute: The five speakers at this symposium have all written recently on the Reagan Doctrine-some before and some after the revela­ tions we now call the Iran-contra affair. We will begin with Joshua Muravchik, who is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, the author of The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas ofHuman Rights Policy and ofan article on the Reagan Doctrine in the June 1, 1987, issue of The New Republic, "Maximum Feasible Containment." He will be followed by Representative Stephen Solarz, chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and author of "When to Intervene," in the summer 1986 issue of Foreign Policy. Next will be Owen Harries, coeditor of The National Interest, and an adjunct scholar at AEI and at the Heritage Foundation. Ste­ phen Rosenfeld is the deputy editorial page editor and a columnist for the Washington Post and the au­ thor of "The Guns of July," an article in the spring 1986 issue ofForeign Affairs. Finally, we will hear from Irving Kristol, senior fellow at AEI, coeditor of The Public Interest, and publisher of The National Interest. JOSHUA MURAVCHIK, American Enterprise Institute: Although the world is full of problems, there is one central or overarching threat to U.S. security. That is the threat posed by the Soviet Union, which is the only power with the ability, physically, to destroy us. That threat is not something we have imagined, nor is it something of our own making. Indeed, we came to recognize it only reluctantly, following World War II, after having nourished the hope that our Soviet ally in the war would remain our partner in peace. Soviet actions soon proved that hope to be naIve. All evi­ dence since shows that the Soviets continue to see their power and ours as being in conflict. Although they wish to avoid war with us, they intend to continue to expand their empire and their influence, and they hope, eventually, to achieve a position of global pre­ emInence. The conflict
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