Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Legacy is Far More Complex – and Successful – Than he Gets Credit For

New America Vice President and ASU Professor of Practice Peter Bergen wrote on the historical evaluation of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy record for CNN.

Carter brokered a lasting peace between Egypt and Israel, opened US diplomatic relations with China, ended the colonial irritant of US control of the Panama Canal, and foregrounded human rights in American policy by, for instance, supporting Soviet dissidents while also taking a hardline when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. All in all, that’s a successful record for any commander-in-chief.

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