Human Rights…”In the Soul of Our Foreign Policy
When Jimmy Carter took office in 1977 U.S. foreign policy clearly bore the stamp of the Nixon-Kissinger years. Its cornerstone ...
From Hemispheric Police to Global Managers
With the end of World War II dawned what Time magazine called the American Century. Europe and Japan a bombed-out ...
IV. U.S. Strategy
"My friends have told Carter not to continue on this course if he wants their support on many future questions ...
TRILATERALISM Renovated for the 1980s
"The terrain is more rugged than I imagined," Secretary of State George Shultz bluntly declared in a February visit to ...
Human Rights: Legislative Balance Sheet
Efforts by human rights lobbyists to cut back U.S. military aid and tighten controls over multilateral bank loans for repressive ...
Immigration: Carter’s Anti-Labor Plan
Few of President Carter's policy decisions have so clearly demonstrated the influence of domestic and transnational corporations and the administration's ...
Carter’s Arms Policy
In June 1976, in one of his first major foreign policy statements, Jimmy Carter raised what was to become a ...
A New Quest for Stability
Today the Administration realizes that the dictatorships, as presently constituted, do not represent the most effective guarantees of long-term imperialist ...