The Foreign Policy of Human Rights: Rhetoric and Reality from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan

1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carleton ◽  
Michael Stohl
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Jimmy Carter

The Helsinki Accord: A Growth Industry

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 53-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Korey
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Mikhail Gorbachev ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Growth Industry

Despite conservative opposition, in the late 1970s, Jimmy Carter turned the tide in favor of the Helsinki Accord by taking a strong stand in fostering U.S. participation in it. Korey focuses on the U.S. delegation to the Commission on Security and Cooperation (CSCE) in Europe and credits the success of the Helsinki Accord to U.S. adroit negotiation strategies, beginning with the Carter administration. By 1980, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came to embrace the “humanitarianism” of the treaty. The Vienna review conference's (1986–89) effort peaked when a milestone was reached in the human rights process, linking it directly to security issues equally pertinent to the East and the West. The author contends that the United States' ardent participation in the monitoring of compliance was particularly effective in putting pressure on the Soviet Union to uphold the agreement within its territory, yielding enormous progress in human rights

The Domestic Politics of War and Peace

2017 ◽  
pp. 250-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mason
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
American Power ◽  
Hostage Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Invasion

Issues of foreign policy were central to presidential politics in 1980. Not only did the Iran hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan raise disturbing questions about America’s strength in the world, but, crucially, Jimmy Carter identified foreign policy as a way to salvage his political fortunes. The strategy, which reflected the bleakness of his domestic record, managed to score some successes. But these successes were incomplete. Impatience with limits on American power overseas was pushing public opinion toward hawkish skepticism of negotiation, assisting the late 1970s Republican revitalization, and allowing Ronald Reagan to unlock an anti-Carter mandate in which malaise about America’s standing overseas was as significant as the malaise about the domestic situation.

Dealing with Defeat

2017 ◽  
pp. 229-249
Author(s):  
Andrew Priest
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Election Cycle ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
The Difference

The election of 1976 took place in very unusual circumstances. Yet, in many ways, the election campaign itself was fairly conventional. Much of the election cycle, however, also revolved around the issues of presidential authority and credibility, and, in these areas, foreign policy was crucial. That Gerald Ford came so close to snatching the election in the finals days and weeks of the campaign suggests that foreign policy could have made the difference and that the president’s refusal or inability to exploit Republican foreign policy positions and divisions between his policies and those of his opponents, Ronald Reagan for the nomination and Jimmy Carter for the election, hampered his ability to develop a winning campaign.

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