Jimmy Carter Human Rights And The National Agenda

Author : Mary E. Stuckey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603440747

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Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda by Mary E. Stuckey Pdf

Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century later. The very elements of Carter's communications on human rights that engendered obstacles to the formation of a coherent and consistent policy--the term's vagueness, the difficulties of applying it, its uneasy relationship with national security interests, and the divergence between Democratic and Republican understandings--allowed "human rights" to become a useful rubric for presidents, both Democratic and Republican, who followed Carter. Stuckey discusses the key elements of how human rights came to the nation's attention.

Author : Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820481858

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The Future Almost Arrived by Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh Pdf

This book is a study of Jimmy Carter's career, his approach to human rights, his formulation of goals, and his practices before, during, and after his presidency, with a focus on the extent to which the promotion and protection of human rights influenced his actions at home and abroad. Historians underestimate the uniqueness of the juncture in the 1970s when Carter missed an opportunity to change priorities in American diplomacy, a misreading that might be explained by the disparity between Carter's agenda and the reality created by his administration's record. This book identifies and examines how Carter's ambitious words and promising ideals did not translate into policy, though his intentions were noble. At a pivotal moment, his administration adopted human rights as a tenet for foreign policy, but Carter did not design imaginative guidelines or prescribe new practices to advance this theme. The Future Almost Arrived illuminates how, had Carter succeeded in recruiting senior staff to support and implement an innovative agenda, the result might have been an overhaul of U.S. foreign policy, with human rights at its center - which, by improving his chances for re-election, would have changed the course of history.

Author : Sheldon Morris Neuringer
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032759717

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The Carter Administration, Human Rights, and the Agony of Cambodia by Sheldon Morris Neuringer Pdf

Author : Alfred Glenn Mower
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012823723

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Human Rights and American Foreign Policy by Alfred Glenn Mower Pdf

This important work provides a comparison of the human rights policies of the Carter and Reagan administrations, developed through a general survey of these policies, a reliance on extensive interviewing and congressional hearings, and four case studies. The book deals first with the background of the human rights foreign policies of the two administrations, their conceptual frameworks, rationales, systems of priorities, the objectives they sought, and the selection of national situations to which the policies were applied. The survey then proceeds to identify and describe the sources of the policies, both legal political, international treaties and agreements, national legislation, and the bureaucracy and Congress. It also examines actions taken to implement the policies and diplomatic pressures and inducements. The case studies describe and compare the approaches of the two administrations to the human rights situations in South Africa, Chile, South Korea, and the Soviet Union.

Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476773971

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A Call to Action by Jimmy Carter Pdf

In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls. President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a wide coalition of leaders of all faiths. His urgent report covers a system of discrimination that extends to every nation. Women are deprived of equal opportunity in wealthier nations and “owned” by men in others, forced to suffer servitude, child marriage, and genital cutting. The most vulnerable and their children are trapped in war and violence. A Call to Action addresses the suffering inflicted upon women by a false interpretation of carefully selected religious texts and a growing tolerance of violence and warfare. Key verses are often omitted or quoted out of context by male religious leaders to exalt the status of men and exclude women. And in nations that accept or even glorify violence, this perceived inequality becomes the basis for abuse. Carter draws upon his own experiences and the testimony of courageous women from all regions and all major religions to demonstrate that women around the world, more than half of all human beings, are being denied equal rights. This is an informed and passionate charge about a devastating effect on economic prosperity and unconscionable human suffering. It affects us all.

Author : Vanessa Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89086214475

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The Paradoxes of Human Rights Diplomacy by Vanessa Walker Pdf

Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118907580

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A Companion to Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter by Scott Kaufman Pdf

With 30 historiographical essays by established and rising scholars, this Companion is a comprehensive picture of the presidencies and legacies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Examines important national and international events during the 1970s, as well as presidential initiatives, crises, and legislation Discusses the biography of each man before entering the White House, his legacy and work after leaving office, and the lives of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, and their families Covers key themes and issues, including Watergate and the pardon of Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, neoconservatism and the rise of the New Right, and the Iran hostage crisis Incorporates presidential, diplomatic, military, economic, social, and cultural history Uses the most recent research and newly released documents from the two Presidential Libraries and the State Department

Author : Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495639

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Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard Pdf

Demonstrates how the Reagan administration and members of Congress shaped US human rights policy in the late Cold War.

Author : Frank Costigliola,Michael J. Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107649545

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America in the World by Frank Costigliola,Michael J. Hogan Pdf

This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.

Author : Courtney Hercus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498574020

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The Struggle over Human Rights by Courtney Hercus Pdf

The Struggle over Human Rights: The Non-Aligned Movement, Jimmy Carter, and Neoliberalism traces the origins of the relationship between neoliberalism and the modern doctrine of human rights to the 1970s. It uses empirical evidence to prove that the Carter administration transformed the U.S., and the traditional Western liberal approach to human rights, in response, in part, to the actions of the Non-Aligned Movement. The New International Economic Order (NIEO), a high-point in Non-Aligned solidarity, placed pressures on the power relations of the international system and sought to advance the social and economic rights of the Third World. Carter’s transformation promoted civil and political rights as the only acceptable “human” rights and relegated economic rights to a “basic needs” approach, undercutting welfare state principles in the U.S. and in the newly emergent independent states in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. This doctrine, as the book highlights through extensive archival research, sharpened the definition of international human rights to serve the maintenance of the U.S.-led world order. Carter’s diplomatic use of human rights obfuscated exploitative economic structures and paved the way for an aggressive neoliberal transformation through World Bank and IMF Structural Adjustment Programs under Reagan. Historical studies of human rights have ignored these connections, making this book a unique contribution to the scholarship of human rights.

Author : Joe Renouard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812292152

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Human Rights in American Foreign Policy by Joe Renouard Pdf

International human rights issues perpetually highlight the tension between political interest and idealism. Over the last fifty years, the United States has labored to find an appropriate response to each new human rights crisis, balancing national and global interests as well as political and humanitarian impulses. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy explores America's international human rights policies from the Vietnam War era to the end of the Cold War. Global in scope and ambitious in scale, this book examines American responses to a broad array of human rights violations: torture and political imprisonment in South America; apartheid in South Africa; state violence in China; civil wars in Central America; persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union; movements for democracy and civil liberties in East Asia and Eastern Europe; and revolutionary political transitions in Iran, Nicaragua, and the collapsing USSR. Joe Renouard challenges the characterization of American human rights policymaking as one of inaction, hypocrisy, and double standards. Arguing that a consistent standard is impractical, he explores how policymakers and citizens have weighed the narrow pursuit of traditional national interests with the desire to promote human rights. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy renders coherent a series of disparate foreign policy decisions during a tumultuous time in world history. Ultimately the United States emerges as neither exceptionally compassionate nor unusually wicked. Rather, it is a nation that manages by turns to be cautiously pragmatic, boldly benevolent, and coldly self-interested.

Author : Matthew J. Ambrose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501709371

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The Control Agenda by Matthew J. Ambrose Pdf

The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond. Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to the interplay of diplomacy, domestic politics, and technology, and finds that the SALT process was a key point of reference for arguments regarding all forms of Cold War decision making. Ambrose argues elite U.S. decision makers used SALT to better manage their restive domestic populations and to exert greater control over the shape, structure, and direction of their nuclear arsenals. Ambrose also asserts that prolonged engagement with arms control issues introduced dynamic effects into nuclear policy. Arms control considerations came to influence most areas of defense decision making, while the measure of stability SALT provided allowed the examination of new and potentially dangerous nuclear doctrines. The Control Agenda makes clear that verification and compliance concerns by the United States prompted continuous reassessments of Soviet capabilities and intentions; assessments that later undergirded key U.S. policy changes toward the Soviet Union. Through SALT’s many twists and turns, accusations and countercharges, secret backchannels and propaganda campaigns the specter of nuclear conflict loomed large.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815731313

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Brookings Big Ideas for America by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

As a new administration takes office, what are the biggest issues facing the country? The Brookings Institution offers answers to that question in this volume, which continues the Brookings tradition of providing each incoming administration with a nonpartisan analysis of the major domestic and foreign questions confronting America. On the domestic front, Brookings scholars tackle topics ranging from health care and improving economic opportunity to criminal justice reform, lawful hacking, and improving infrastructure. The alliance system, the relationship with China, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Syria among the foreign policies issues addressed. Throughout, Brookings scholars share their individual ideas on how best to address the agenda that awaits the new administration.

Author : Akira Iriye,Petra Goedde,William I. Hitchcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195333145

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The Human Rights Revolution by Akira Iriye,Petra Goedde,William I. Hitchcock Pdf

This volume explores the place of human rights in history, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented, with case studies focusing on the 1940s through the present.

Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429990651

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White House Diary by Jimmy Carter Pdf

The edited, annotated diary of President Jimmy Carter--filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues that still preoccupy America and the world Each day during his presidency, Jimmy Carter made several entries in a private diary, recording his thoughts, impressions, delights, and frustrations. He offered unvarnished assessments of cabinet members, congressmen, and foreign leaders; he narrated the progress of secret negotiations such as those that led to the Camp David Accords. When his four-year term came to an end in early 1981, the diary amounted to more than five thousand pages. But this extraordinary document has never been made public--until now. By carefully selecting the most illuminating and relevant entries, Carter has provided us with an astonishingly intimate view of his presidency. Day by day, we see his forceful advocacy for nuclear containment, sustainable energy, human rights, and peace in the Middle East. We witness his interactions with such complex personalities as Ted Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Joe Biden, Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin. We get the inside story of his so-called "malaise speech," his bruising battle for the 1980 Democratic nomination, and the Iranian hostage crisis. Remarkably, we also get Carter's retrospective comments on these topics and more: thirty years after the fact, he has annotated the diary with his candid reflections on the people and events that shaped his presidency, and on the many lessons learned. Carter is now widely seen as one of the truly wise men of our time. Offering an unprecedented look at both the man and his tenure, White House Diary is a fascinating book that stands as a unique contribution to the history of the American presidency.