| This thesis has focused on the Reagan Administration's motivations for intervening in Grenada in October 1983. By critically examining the three stated justifications and proposing unstated motivations for intervention, this work has highlighted larger issues related to the role of public opinion and support in the formation of American foreign policy. As the first intervention since America's defeat in Vietnam, the Grenada intervention comes at a particularly tentative time in U.S. foreign policy and as such this thesis examines how the Reagan Administration attempted to sell the war. This thesis was informed by a variety of primary sources drawn from declassified documents from the Reagan Presidential Library, captured documents from Grenada's People's Revolutionary Government, newspaper articles, and memoir accounts from leading actors in the Reagan Administration as well as leading secondary documents on the topic.;Keywords: Urgent Fury, Grenada Intervention, Grenada Invasion, Reagan foreign policy, Grenada Revolution, Maurice Bishop, Paul Scoon... |
