Human Rights..."In the Soul of Our Foreign Policy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...