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This 9 page paper explores Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy in Central American, and why it is often considered a failure. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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him to be a hands-on person with a sense of honor and integrity. He was always known for these qualities, but still his foreign policy is regarded as a failure.
This paper considers why this assessment has been made. Discussion One of the reasons why President Carters foreign policy didnt succeed is that he tried to do something very different.
Until his administration, U.S. foreign policy was based on a "realpolitik vision of the world," in which American policies were aimed solely at contained the perceived threat posed by the
soviet Union after WWII (p. 465). These policies were based on three assumptions: first, that nations are the "dominant actors in international politics" (p. 465). Other interested parties exist, but
the\y are peripheral; only the major nations are important to those who believe in this scenario (author). The second assumption is that "the threat and use of force is the
most effective instrument of statecraft," and even when other means are available, they are not as effective or important as the military option (p 465). The third assumption of those
who believe in realpolitik is that there is a "hierarchy of issues in world politics in which the high politics of national security issues dominate the low politics of economics
and other issues" (p. 465). Adherents of this somewhat rigid mindset believe that national security is the paramount issue of any nation; it "constitutes a single issue occurring in
a single system and entails a ceaseless and repetitive competition for the single stake of power" ( p. 456). Since the Truman Administration, the foreign policy of the U.S. was
seen as a power struggle between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. and their respective allies, "where American interests, international peace, and global stability were pursued principally through the threat and use
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