Conservative intellectuals and the Reagan-Gorbachev summits

Ronald Reagan's 1980 election represented the apex of the conservative intellectual movement's political success in America. While historians have thoroughly examined the movement's effect on domestic American politics, international historians have been more reluctant to evaluate conservative intellectuals' influence on Reagan's foreign policy. This essay seeks to determine what can be better understood about America's foreign affairs by examining Reagan's reaction to the conservative intellectual movement's views on the Reagan-Gorbachev summits.