Truman, Reagan, Exceptionalism and Exceptionalism in United States Foreign Policy
Journal: The Social Contract
Year: 2025

This essay will show how The Truman Doctrine and Universalism were foundational in the inclusion of exceptionalism and exemptionalism into historical American foreign policy. It illustrates how the United States (US) Government created foreign policy that used the Reagan Doctrine to undermine the developing the socialist democracy in Nicaragua under the Sandinista regime. The work is divided into three sections. First, it contextualizes the Truman Doctrine to clearly show the Truman administrati