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triumph of containment

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Date Issued:
2008
Summary:
President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy changed significantly and progressively over the course of his four year term. What began as a liberal-internationalist approach to foreign policy ended in a traditional Cold War stalemate with the Soviet Union. There are many causes for this shift: changes in the international environment, shifting public opinion, and other domestic-political pressures. One of the most consistently undervalued causes for Carter's overall foreign policy shift was the personal influence of his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Through a variety of advocacy pressures and framing tactics, Brzezinski was able to utilize the changes in the international system, and especially, changes within domestic-political environment to convince Carter of an extensive reformation of his foreign policy perspective and priorities.
Title: The triumph of containment: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, and the demise of defense.
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Name(s): Embrick, Kevin S.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of History
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 2008
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form: electronic
Extent: vii, 154 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy changed significantly and progressively over the course of his four year term. What began as a liberal-internationalist approach to foreign policy ended in a traditional Cold War stalemate with the Soviet Union. There are many causes for this shift: changes in the international environment, shifting public opinion, and other domestic-political pressures. One of the most consistently undervalued causes for Carter's overall foreign policy shift was the personal influence of his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. Through a variety of advocacy pressures and framing tactics, Brzezinski was able to utilize the changes in the international system, and especially, changes within domestic-political environment to convince Carter of an extensive reformation of his foreign policy perspective and priorities.
Identifier: 316412749 (oclc), 165939 (digitool), FADT165939 (IID), fau:2821 (fedora)
Note(s): by Kevin S. Embrick.
Vita.
Subtitle on abstract page incorrectly spells the name Zbigneiw [sic] Brzezinski.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 1928-
National security -- United States
United States -- Politics and government -- 1977-1981
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977-1981
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