A Precarious Equilibrium: Human Rights and dTente in Jimmy Carter's Soviet Policy

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Human rights and dtente inextricably intertwined during Carters years. By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for dtente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR. But, human rights contributed to the erosion of dtente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.

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'Readers looking for a nuanced and informative study will not be disappointed. Utilizing a wide array of archival research, Tulli recounts Carters efforts to promote human rights in the Soviet Union, which intersected with
dtente. While such arguments are not as novel as Tulli suggests, A Precarious Equilibrium still makes an important contribution to explaining how Carter waged the Cold War.'
Christian Philip Peterson, Ferris State University, Journal of Contemporary History 57(1)

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Umberto Tulli is a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities and the School of International Studies at the University of Trento