Throughout the last decades, great amounts of money have been spent in defense by the United States. This spending symbolizes the country's reaction to systemic conditions but it is also related to the interests of domestic agents that pressure for their maintenance. In this article, we seek to examine how the combination of these pressures have worked during the end of the Cold War period by comparing the defense budgets of the first Reagan Administration (1981-1984) with the Bush Administration (1989-1992) ones.
George H. W. Bush; American Defense budget; Ronald Reagan
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