ABSTRACT

The Reagan Doctrine, certainly in its more expansive version, subordinated the traditional bases of international order to a particular version of legitimacy by proclaiming a right of intervention against non-democratic governments and particularly against Marxist-Leninist governments. The Reagan Doctrine cast the nation in the role of extending freedom and not only of defending it, as earlier the Truman Doctrine had done. The post war order was an order inseparable from containment. The enemy powers of World War II apart, states that according to a special provision of the Charter could be dealt with at will by any member of the Organization that had been at war with them, only the small powers remained as prospective objects of the enforcement measures provided for in the Charter. The new world order is rested on the likelihood of the cooperation of the permanent members of the Security Council.