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Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform

Reversing Course: Carter's Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and the Failure of Reform

Skidmore, David

Hardcover

International RelationsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0826512739
ISBN13: 9780826512734
Publisher: Vanderbilt Univ Pr
Published: Jan 31 1996
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
An examination of the several reasons for the failure of foreign policy reform during the controversial administration of President Jimmy Carter.

In Reversing Course, David Skidmore argues that President Carter's initial foreign policy agenda required a scaling back of U.S. commitments abroad, reflecting a decline in resources, as well as influence, in a world developing in ways necessarily reducing U.S. hegemony. By probing beneath the obvious and carefully sifting the abundant but poorly understood evidence, Skidmore finds at the root of Carter's failed effort an irresistible pressure to reverse a liberal foreign-policy agenda in order to address the effect at home of well-organized conservative criticism. For Skidmore, Carter's course reversed toward a traditional containment strategy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union not because of Soviet intransigence or faulty idealism but because Cold War politics sold better in the polls.

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