Question

Part A
Describe President Carter's goals for American foreign policy.

Answer 1

Unlike the cold war presidents before him, and Ronald Reagan after him, Jimmy Carters foreign policy was centered around an emphasis on human rights, democratic values, nuclear non-proliferation, and addressing global poverty. Carter believed that the United States should avoid military interventions as much as possible. While actively criticizing the USSR for its human rights violations he still wanted to have good relations with them. Due to Carter religious views, he refused throughout his entire presidency to ever fire a bullet or launch a missile and instead opted for peaceful diplomatic ends to conflict. Unfortunately, these goals of peaceful diplomacy backfired for him in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, where despite the fact that Iran had held hostage 52 USA diplomats, he refused to attack Iran via bombing them or launching any nuclear attacks at them. Historians generally blame the standoff as a major factor in the continuing downfall of Carter's presidency and his landslide loss in the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan. Ultimately Carter believed that the USA should be the champion of peace rather than constant military intervention.

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Answer 2

Carter believed that previous administrations had erred in allowing the Cold War concerns and Realpolitik to dominate foreign policy. His administration placed a new emphasis on human rights, democratic values, nuclear proliferation, and global poverty. Latin America was central to Carter's new focus on human rights.