Godlyuk A. Foreign policy and security phenomenon of reaganism

The dissertation studies the specific features of the foreign policy and security dimensions of R. Reagan's Doctrine with account of the impact of its realization on the global changes of political and system kind, cease of the Cold War, and development of unipolarity in international relations. Presents the author's specification of the notion "reaganism". Finds out the causal relationships between the factor of division of powers and decisions and actions of the US administration during the Cold War. Reasons the practicability of the foreground use of political analysis and praxeology in specifying the levels of effectiveness of the American geopolitics in conditions of system confrontation and international policy of the two republican administrations after the USSR breakup. Shows the dichotomic nature of the democratizational idea for the foreign world in the policy of the 40th and 43rd presidents of the US. Confirms, that the central idea of the Reagan Doctrine was to ruin the ideological basis of the soviet political system and stop the expansionism of the USSR in the third world, but not to dismember the Soviet Union..Determines the extent of historical reality of the statement about the exceptional effectiveness of the foreign policy of R. Reagan's administration in its basic plane, i.e. the aim to destroy the communist system, stop the global soviet expansion and implement the European American model of democracy in other regions of the world. Presents the causal relationships between such an element of the Reagan Doctrine as democratization of the foreign world and the assistance to certain authoritarian regimes in the third world.Carries out a critical analysis of the revisionist approaches to the general conceptual principles of the US foreign policy, specifies the conceptual position of the American political thought about the recreation of the Reagan Doctrine during the presidency of G. Bush Junior, structurally constant and unsteady in the US foreign policy strategies in 1980s and at the beginning of 2000s