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

by David Skidmore

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826512739
• ISBN13: 9780826512734
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"