1. Jimmy Carter

2. Carter Approval Ratings

3. Carter’s Challenges The End of the Foreign Policy Consensus
New Congressional Power
Viet Nam Syndrome

4. End of US Foreign Policy Consensus?
Truman Doctrine: Consensus
L R
Post-Viet Nam: Polarization

5. Congressional Power
War Powers Resolution 1973 (PL ) (from Federation of American Scientists , see Appendix 3)
Clark Amendment to Arms Export Control Act 1976

6. Viet Nam Syndrome

7. Key Advisors
Sec State Cyrus Vance
NS Adv. Zbigniew Brzezinski

8. Vance vs. Brzezinski (by 1978)
Issue
Vance
Brzezinski
IR Belief System
Idealism
Realism
View of Détente
The basis of US foreign policy
Perhaps too soft on Soviets
View of SALT
SALT II is crucial
SALT II is a bargaining chip
View of Regional Conflict
Local issues that the US and USSR might be making worse
Where the US and USSR must compete for global power
View of Use of Force
Skeptical about its usefulness
An essential tool of a superpower

9. Carter Policies: “Dovish”
Human Rights
SALT II

10. Carter Policies: Hawkish
MX Missile
Trident D-5 Missile

11. Iranian Revolution Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

12. November 4, 1979

13. “Arc of Crisis”

14. Rescue Mission April 1980