Presidential faith and foreign policy : Jimmy Carter the disciple and Ronald Reagan the alchemist
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Bibliographic Information
Presidential faith and foreign policy : Jimmy Carter the disciple and Ronald Reagan the alchemist
(Palgrave studies in religion, politics, and policy / series editors, Ted G. Jelen and Mark J. Rozell)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
1st ed
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
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  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 255-278
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the relationship between the religious beliefs of presidents and their foreign policymaking. Through the application of a new methodological approach that provides a cognetic narrative of each president, this study reveals the significance of religion's impact on U.S. foreign policy.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Religion in the American Political Sphere 2. Jimmy Carter's Cognetic Narrative: An Evangelical Engineer 3. Jimmy Carter's Evangelical Mission: Human Rights 4. Redemption: Jimmy Carter and the Panama Canal Treaties 5. Jimmy Carter's Just Peace in the Middle East 6. Ronald Reagan's Cognetic Narrative: All-American Alchemist 7. Ronald Reagan's Divine Imperium of Freedom 8. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative 9. The Strategic Defense Initiative and US-Soviet Relations: 1983-1987 Conclusion
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