Il conservatorismo cattolico nella politica estera americana. Il caso dell’Associazione Tradizione, Famiglia e Proprietà nella prima amministrazione Reagan (1981-1985)

This article examines the influence of the American chapter of Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP), a Catholic counterrevolutionary move- ment founded in 1960 by Brazilian thinker Plínio Corrêa de Oliveira, on U.S. foreign policy during the first Reagan administration (1981–1985). Drawing on a wide array of primary sources, it analyzes how TFP’s ideological vision shaped the discourse and, to a limited extent, the strategies of the American New Right. After outlining the association’s doctrinal foundations and its moral-theo- logical approach to international affairs, the article highlights TFP’s campaigns against European socialist governments, its opposition to the reemergence of Henry Kissinger, and its connections to the Reagan White House through figures such as Morton Blackwell. It sheds new light on TFP’s reliance on moral and theological principles, which informed its rejection of both détente and isolationism. The article concludes that TFP contributed – albeit indirectly – to the ideological framing of U.S. Cold War policy by supplying rhetorical and conceptual tools to confront communism and the Soviet Union.