A precarious equilibrium
Human rights and détente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet policy
By Umberto Tulli
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-6077-5
- Pages: 232
- Price: £21.00
- Published Date: September 2021
- Series: Key Studies in Diplomacy
Description
Human rights and détente inextricably intertwined during Carter's years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for détente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of détente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.
Reviews
'Readers looking for a nuanced and informative study will not be disappointed. Utilizing a wide array of archival research, Tulli recounts Carter's efforts to promote human rights in the Soviet Union, which intersected with
détente. While such arguments are not as novel as Tulli suggests, A Precarious Equilibrium still makes an important contribution to explaining how Carter waged the Cold War.'
Christian Philip Peterson, Ferris State University, Journal of Contemporary History 57(1)
Contents
Introduction
1 Setting the Stage for a Human Rights Policy
2 Human Rights and the 1976 Presidential Election
3 Firmness Abroad; Consensus at Home, 1977-1978.
4 Coping with Critics: the Choice in Favour of Quiet Diplomacy, 1978.
5 Critics' Triumph: Quiet Diplomacy, SALT II and the Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979-1980.
Conclusions
Author
Umberto Tulli is a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and the School of International Studies at the University of Trento
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