Jimmy Carter: Foreign Policy and Post-Presidential Years

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.

Table of Contents:
Preface by Herbert D. Rosenbaum Major Principles and Guidelines of the Carter Foreign Policy Overviews An 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 Rights Free 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 Policies The Middle East Peace Process National 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 Accords The Iran Hostage Crisis The 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 World Africa 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 USSR The 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 Prologue The 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.

Review :
.,." Belongs in every serious collection of books on the Carter presidency. Covers a wide range of issues and events from the Carter era and includes valuable insights and observations from participations in those events. Strongly recommended for Carter scholars and research library collections. Researcher; faculty; professional."-Choice ?... Belongs in every serious collection of books on the Carter presidency. Covers a wide range of issues and events from the Carter era and includes valuable insights and observations from participations in those events. Strongly recommended for Carter scholars and research library collections. Researcher; faculty; professional.?-Choice ..." Belongs in every serious collection of books on the Carter presidency. Covers a wide range of issues and events from the Carter era and includes valuable insights and observations from participations in those events. Strongly recommended for Carter scholars and research library collections. Researcher; faculty; professional."-Choice