Between Realism and Reality: The Reagan Administration and International Debt

By James W. Joseph

This book uses a complex interdependence model to explain U.S. policy on international debt between 1981 and 1985. The author analyzes four cases: the administration's decision in early 1982 to pay interest due from Poland to U.S. banks on hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural credits; the administration's actions to prevent a default by Mexico on its international debt; the decision by Reagan officials to support an increase of $8.4 billion in the U.S. share of the lending quota for the International Monetary Fund; and the 'Plan for Sustained Growth' designed to increase dramatically the amount of money lent to developing countries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819192740
• ISBN13: 9780819192745
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"