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An Outsider in the White House : Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy /
Jimmy Carter entered the White House with a desire for a collegial staff that would aid his foreign-policy decision making. He wound up with a "team of rivals" who contended for influence and who fought over his every move regarding relations with the USSR, the Peoples' Republic of Ch...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- High expectations
- The foreign policy team
- The Brzezinski advantage
- Early fumbles
- Recovery
- Human rights and the Soviet target
- Competition in the Horn of Africa
- Negotiations with Panama
- Dealing with Congress
- Salt and the Senate
- The tilt toward China
- Building the security relationship
- The impact of a motivated tactician
- Maestro of the Camp David talks
- Support teams and the road ahead
- Confronting a regime change
- Scrambling for options
- The Soviet Brigade "crisis"
- Afghanistan: formulating a response
- Exacting a price
- MAD and the pursuit of PD-59
- Shadowing the Soviets
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend
- The death of the archbishop
- Operation Eagle Claw
- The final months
- Jimmy Carter and the American mission
- Appendix : American and foreign actors : specific issues.