new personalities

• ronald reagan?

  • reagam hated arms race, didn't want to engage in war
  • aggressive stance to com
  • thought US mistrust in sov union was reason for detente failure
  • US need to turn to unilateralism (rely on states own resources acting as individ state)
• margaret thatcher?

  visited reagan feb 81, UK and US friends.

  • thatcher convinced CW went on for too long, agreed to follow US in launching F-111 bombers against Libya 86. Willing ally in US agg
  • less willing to back SDI, no nuclear weapons= imbalance between E/W.
• pope john paul 2?

  • visited Poland, aggressive and controlling state, speaking freely within country saying for need to reunite borders and expressing for borders to open