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Assesses Reagan's defense policy and programs, contending that arms control negotiations were not integral to the administration's policies. Discusses the reestablishment of public support for U.S. globalism, and examines the use of U.S. military forces during the Reagan years. Analyzes Reagan's efforts at breaking the Vietnam Syndrome. (RW)

ABSTRACT The modalities of foreign policy provide a useful dimension by which the two post-Cold War foreign policy presidencies can be compared. This research also considers the substantive policy dimensions [...]

It has been widely accepted that most scleractinian corals are viviparous, often releasing larvae intermittently throughout the year (1-3). This view is supported by studies of a few species that [...]

The preponderance of contemporary institutional analysis concerning the president and war is that the exigencies imposed by world politics and the modalities of conflict in the late 20th and early 21st centuries ineluctably push the American political system away from Madison's constitutionalism towards an expansion of presidential power at the expense of the Congress. This paper will review the contemporary war powers relationship between President and Congress including the recent recommendations of the National Warpowers Commission. The focus of this analysis is on the period since the end of the Cold War for it is during the last two decades that the theory and practice of presidential primacy or "presidentialism" has reached its zenith, surpassing even the "imperial presidency" of the middle Cold War period, i.e. the 1960s and early 1970s. This presidentialism confronts the constitutionalism that Madison and his associates sought to codify at the turn of the 18th into the 19th century and invites analysis of the challenge to and whether the Madisonian vision retains relevance for the institutions and processes of US foreign and national security policy making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]