Essays on Jimmy Carter

Modern international relations have significantly increased the influence of American presidents. Three in particular served with similar events playing out: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. The terms of these presidents were denoted by tumult in Iran and a resurgent Russia, and as far as foreign policy is concerned, their legacies may not be pristine. Jimmy Carter faced significant challenges in regards to Iran, whose revolution in 1979 instilled a theocratic regime devoted to Islamic law. The Ayatollah blamed the West for many of the region’s issues and when Carter allowed the deposed Shah to receive medical ...

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The recent history of the United States is filled with conflict against other nations, peace negotiations, and cooperation within the country in a constant struggle for growth. After almost 250 years since becoming an independent nation, this country is still young and establishing its culture. Not only does the United States have a political history of conflict, it struggles to keep children from poverty and seems to fail miserably.

Pacific Relations with Vietnam.

The Vietnam War was originally between North Vietnam with support from its allies who were communist and the South Vietnam who wanted to avoid communist and had the United ...

Several atrocities have been witnessed against humanity in the history of the world. These include mass killings and destruction of property by political tyrants who seem to believe they have a duty to play and in turn to exert their forceful influence on seemingly less powerful people in a manner that is ruthless and unjust. The impunity with which such merciless acts are effected, is what creates a cloud off bitterness shadowing the fateful events that can never be taken back. One example of such injustice is one that takes place at the dawn of the 80’s in ...

Introduction

When World War II ended, the US adopted an aggressive foreign policy in order to relate with other nations globally. The country was considered a super power and, therefore, it began to assert its influence on the world map, adopting a vibrant international policy that it considered important to protect and achieve its national interests. During the entire period of the cold war, the US, previously considered an inactive economic, military and political giant, moved away from its cherished isolationist policy that had historical attachment to its founding fathers in favor of an active intervention policy on world issues ( ...

Iran Revolution of 1979

Abstract The Iranian Revolution of 1979 involved the popular uprising in Iran against the regime of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. This paper examines many of the leading explanations for the uprising, including the rise of militant Islam, structural weaknesses of the Shah regime, the coalition of three important social groups (e.g. woman, youth, and the intelligentsia), the composition of the reform movement, and the effect of the Shah’s policies of accommodation and repression, to name a few. This paper also draws on leading theories in social movement theory, contemporary field work involving discussions with the Mullahs and their ...

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Jimmy Carter was a President with a difference and even today he is still quite appreciated for his philanthropic work although his term as President was marked by a rather benign foreign policy which unfortunately did not always work and left him with considerable baggage in this respect.

Perhaps the American nation had high expectations regarding foreign policy especially after the disaster of the Watergate scandal and the quite uneventful Presidency of Gerald Ford. Notwithstanding all this, Carter was also quite unlucky in the sense that a number of issues occurred on his watch which could have been avoided especially the Iranian Revolution ...

United States became one of the key factors behind the development of the peace process in the Middle East and is currently forming the basis for its continuation. United States from the very beginning of its entering the Middle East was most actively engaged in negotiating and mediation activities. Those practical steps of the Americans brought some positive results. Together with the Soviet Union, the US was at the origins of the Arab-Israeli conflict resolution in the late 60's - early 70`s of XX century. With the participation of Washington first notable successes in this area were achieved, ...

There were many reasons as to why the American Federation of Labor prevailed against the knights of labor. The AFL became more influential than the knights of labor because they were able to form strikes and other local councils that will cater for the needs of the workers. The reigning labor organization in America was the knight of labor especially in the 1880s. It was started in 1869, and at first, it was supposed to be a ritualistic organization but due to the fame, it gained fame thus the members expanded especially in the 1880s. They helped to support ...

Political leadership presents a puzzle difficult to unravel. Highly skillful leaders are most effective when they have an abundance of political support. Jimmy Carter is one of the successful and effective leaders of the United States who served as the President of the country. Carter made the most of his opportunities against the backdrop of historical context and available political resources. The impressive features of Carter are his management of policy development within the administration and his style as a decision maker . Carter’s effectiveness as a President matches his skills and strategies of leadership to his historical opportunities. He followed a deeply ...

Iran-United States Relations

Abstract This paper is on the topic of relation between the global superpower the United States of America and the Islamic republic of Iran. This paper will discuss the various events and their timeline in the history of this relation. The paper will identify the sources of conflict between these countries and the impact of these conflicts on these countries. The paper will cover events from 1953 to present and the role played by the United States in the development and changes in Iran in past 60 years. Finally, the paper will summarize the events with information in ...

The Hart-Celler Act is also known as the Nationality and Immigration Act of 1965. It replaced what was formerly known as National Origins Formula which had been enacted in the United States since 1924. The NOF was enacted to put a quota on the immigration of national from other foreign countries into the United States. The Hart-Cellar Act therefore abolished the quota system of national origins. Instead of putting the numerical restriction of immigrants at 150,000 people per year as was in NOF, this Act extended it to a maximum of 170,000. The Johnson-Reed Act was the Act ...

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Palestine: Peace not Apartheid is a strong and general forceful book written by former President Jimmy Carter which attempts to portray the issue of Palestine and Israel in a more clear and factful light. Some writers and especially Jewish scholars have contested several of Carter’s theories in the book where he espouses the dictum that Israel’s hostile control and semi dictatorship in the occupied Palestinian territories are principal obstacles in the peace process. Carter also focuses at length on the talks he had hosted between President Begim of Israel and Anwar Sadat that led to the famous Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty ...

The hostage crisis in Iran was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iran. This happened between November 4, 1979 and January 20, 1981. During this period, fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days in Iran (Samuels, Richard 176). The crisis started when a few Iranian students, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the US Embassy in Tehran. During that period, President Carter referred to the hostages as victims of anarchy and terrorists. The hostage taking was a blow against America and its influence in Iran. The crisis undermined the Iranian revolution, and the support of Shah Mohammad ...

Presidential approval ratings in the United States were first brought up in 1930s to gauge the presidents of United States by the public during his term (Edwards and Gallup, 2000). Approval rating is determined by a polling which shows the percentage of people to an opinion poll who support a particular programme or person.in simple terms, presidential approval rating is taken during the term of a president to determine his popularity to the people in terms of percentage as to whether they approve or disapprove his or her ways of administration or the decisions he/she has so far carried out. The ...

What do Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush have in common? Apart from the fact that all three of them served as Presidents of the United States of America, two other things that they have in common is that all three of them were one term presidents and all three of these incumbent presidents failed in their bids for re-election between 1976 and 1992. All three incumbent presidents were bested by their challengers after only serving one year as president of the country. However, the issues that occurred during their one-term presidencies was another thing they had ...

Airline Deregulation Act of 1978

In the field of aviation and transport, airline regulations had been a cause for debate considering the nature of its policies and restrictions. In the past, airlines were seen as regulated utilities, putting them in harsh conditions that prevents them from practicing flexible competition and providing service that would not hamper their service to their clients. Requests for reform and approval were either rejected or refuted by advisory boards that would stop all reform, believing it would be detrimental to the industry. The United States aviation sector had longed felt this sentiment from the 1930s up to the late 1970s ...

Carter, Jimmy. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Jimmy Carter’s term as the U.S. President was essentially a time between two reigns, a bridge and carried the country from the end if its concern with Watergate scandal to the advent of Reagan revolution (Elston 3). Carter arrived in Washing from Georgia in 1977 as an outsider who conformed to the political odds to secure an elective position in the first place. He left office after four years, still largely an outsider, after a shocking electoral defeat in which he lost 44 out of 50 states. Keeping ...

Evaluation Essay on Jimmy Carter Speech “Energy and the National Goals” Delivered July 15, 1979.

The United States of America faced an energy crisis during the 1979 summer. The crisis was so evident that there were long queues of gas lines. According to Montefiore (110), the inadequate supply of gas in the States drew concern that made the nation go into panic. The nation grew anxiety about the biting energy issue. McIntire confirms that the gas stations had no gas, and the few that had gas sold the gas expensively (78). The nation needed the government to act quickly and resolve the energy crisis that the nation experienced. Montefiore (100) confirms that President Jimmy ...

Background of the Study

Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the role of China in the relation between Thailand and Cambodia has been quite evident. China has been involved in a number of ways, including the border disputes between Cambodia and Thailand, which started several years ago. Cambodia’s historical concern about Thailand’s inversion on its western provinces depicts a case where an ASEAN state has suspended diplomatic relations with another (Weatherbee 2008). The border dispute started in 1954, and in 2003, it took a new course. This conflict has impacted negatively on the development of ASEAN and on the ...