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President Jimmy Carter, like all his predecessors since World War II, experienced the blurring of lines between foreign and domestic politics while, paradoxically, the contrasts between those lines became more pronounced. In nearly every arena of domestic and foreign policy, he had to deal with the intrusion of the politics of both spheres.
The major concerns of the Carter foreign policy experience and, consequently, of the papers included in the volume were staffing the foreign policy apparatus, shifting human rights to the forefront of basic policy considerations, attempting to create peaceful conditions in the Middle East, contributing to the emergence of underdeveloped countries, lessening Cold War tensions, ending the negotiations over the Panama Canal, and working to free the hostages in Iran. While the bulk of the volume focuses on these concerns, the remainder addresses President Carter's career after leaving the White House. These essays will be of concern to all involved with the study of the twentieth-century American presidency and modern diplomacy.
List of contents
Preface by Herbert D. Rosenbaum
Major Principles and Guidelines of the Carter Foreign PolicyOverviewsAn Examination of the Carter Administration's Selection of Secretary of State and National Security Advisor by Lawrence X. Clifford
President Carter, Western Europe, and Afghanistan in 1980: Inter-Allied Differences over Policy toward the Soviet Invasion by Minton F. Goldman
The Rise and Fall of America's First Post-Cold War Foreign Policy by Jerel A. Rosati
Negotiations at Home and Abroad: Carter's Alternatives to Conflict and War by Kenneth W. Thompson
Human RightsFree Elections Based on Human Rights Protection: The Carter Contribution by Henry F. Carey
American-Romanian Relations, 1977-1981: A Case Study in Carter's Human Rights Policy by Joseph Harrington
Carter's Human Rights Policy: Political Idealism and Realpolitik by Vernon J. Vavrina
Middle East Problems and PoliciesThe Middle East Peace ProcessNational and International Consequences of Ambassador Andrew Young's Meeting with PLO Observer Terzi by Bartlett C. Jones
Did President Carter Miss an Opportunity for Peace between Israel and Jordan--Or is the "Jordanian Option" Still a Viable Solution? by Samuel Segev
The Camp David AccordsThe Iran Hostage CrisisThe Iranian Hostages Case: Its Implications for the Future of International Law of Diplomacy by Michael M. Gunter
The Deportation of Iranian Students during the Iranian Hostage Crisis by Christine Reilly
The Iran Rescue Mission: A Case Study in Executive Distrust of Congress by Frank J. Smist, Jr.
The Carter Administration and the Third WorldAfrica and Asia
Principled Pragmatism: Carter, Human Rights, and Indo-American Relations by Srinivas M. Chary
Managing Foreign Policy: Carter and the Regionalist Experiment toward Africa, January 1977-May 1978 by R. Benneson DeJanes
The Reaction of the Carter Administration to Human Rights Violations in Cambodia by Carl Lieberman
The Panama Canal Treaties
Foreign Policy Interest Groups and Presidential Power: Jimmy Carter and the Battle over the Ratification of the Panama Canal Treaties by David Skidmore
The United States and the USSRThe Carter Administration, the Senate, and SALT II by Dan Caldwell
An Offered Hand Rejected? The Carter Administration and the Vance Mission to Moscow in March 1977 by Vladislay Zubok
The Past as PrologueThe Post-Presidency and the Carter Center
Jimmy Carter: The Post-Presidential Years by Steven H. Hochman
Jimmy Carter Rehabilitated: Post-Presidential Press and Early Revisionism by Mark J. Rozell
Banquet Address
The Unchanging Jimmy Carter by Robert S. Strauss
High School Colloquium and Town Meeting
Index
About the author
HERBERT D. ROSENBAUM recently retired from his position as Professor of History at Hofstra University. He was the Director of the Conference on the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1982, and was also the co-editor of the proceedings of this FDR conference. He was also Director of the Jimmy Carter Conference.
ALEXEJ UGRINSKY is Director of Documentation, Finance, and Planning at the Hofstra Cultural Center. Both have served as editors for earlier volumes of the
Hofstra Presidency Series published in conjunction with Greenwood Press.
