Panel 4: South and East Asia

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin in association with the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Department of History and the Department of Government, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, hosted a 3-day conference titled "Ronald Reagan and the Transformation of Global Politics in the 1980s" in January 2017.

This conference will bring together a group of scholars and former policy-makers to undertake a wide-ranging reassessment of U.S. foreign policy and international relations during the Reagan Administration in light of emerging archival resources and declassified documents.

South and East Asia

- Elisabeth Mariko Leake (Leeds), “Reagan, Islam, and Islamism: Negotiating the Politics of Religion in US Foreign Policy”
- Jennifer Miller (Dartmouth), “Adam Smith's Arthritis: Japan and the Fear of American Decline”
- Robert Rakove (Stanford), “The Central Front of Reagan’s Cold War: The United States and Afghanistan, 1981-1988”
- John Clinton Work (Washington), “Shifting Hierarchy and Subordinate Sovereignty: The Carter-Reagan Transition and the US-South Korea Alliance”
- Discussant: Paul D. Miller (Texas)

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