On Human Rights Diplomacy Of Carter Administration Toward Latin America

Human rights issue is an important issue, which attracts the current internationalcommunity's general attention, an important focus of the international ideology struggles.The U.S. A. government introduced human rights issue into diplomatic field long ago,however, it is in the period until Carter administration that human rights is really combinedwith the diplomatic practice together and become an important principle of U.S.A.'s foreignpolicy. Hereafter, human rights was kept by all previous governments of U.S.A.; became animportant factor, a key principal, a basic respect in the U.S.A. diplomatic policy ever since.In view of the importance and sensitiveness of human rights issue in the contemporaryinternational relations, there is much domestic and international research on U.S.A. humanrights diplomacy. The achievement is very abundant too. But among the achievement these,the overall research of U.S.A. human rights diplomacy are many, divide area, divide intocountry other relatively little case study. This discourse tries to systematically card the comeon and practice process, to objectively evaluate the policy's successes and failures and itsessential by studying the U.S.A. human rights diplomacy toward Latin America of Carteradministration. The author wishes to see form a small clue that is coming.Policy-makers of United States always regard the geographic proximity of LatinAmerica with U.S.A., as the natural orbit. Since the publication of manifesto of Monroe in1823, the United States expanded its territory at all the times and made its great efforts tocontrol Latin America area to establish hegemony in western hemisphere. Since Carteradministration put forward the human rights diplomacy, Latin America becomes animportant executive object of this policy.The whole discourse can be divided into four factions: The first part of this article mainly analyses the issue of Carter administration's humanrights diplomacy toward Latin America. The author believes this policy's issue comes fromthe tradition of idealism in American diplomatic culture. By the look of realistic factor, it isthe need of U.S.A. contesting hegemony with U.S.S.R. in Latin America; the reaction ofAmerican to pejorative human rights condition of Latin America under military regime; theresults of American congress and human rights interest group forced together at the sametime. The second part mainly expatiate the implement of Carter administration's human rightsdiplomacy toward Latin America by listing history facts. For pushing human rightsdiplomacy in Latin America into practice, Carter administration mainly takes these measures:connects the external aid with human rights condition; make use of official intercourse topropagandize the human rights diplomacy; to promote the sound of America human rightssystem by depending on America national organization; to hobnob with Latin Americademocratic government, stand off the military government. The third part analyses the exhibition and reasons of Carter administration's humanrights diplomacy toward Latin America's failures. As an idealistic diplomatic policy, humanrights diplomacy never essentially changes the human rights condition of Latin America. Asa realistic diplomatic policy, human rights diplomacy makes the U.S.A. and Latin Americaalliance looser; hastens the eruption of Nicaragua revolution; U.S.S.R and Cuba's influencein Latin American enlarged. This result is just contrary to this policy's original intention. So,we can say this policy failed. Its failure's reason is the moral discipline of human rightsdiplomacy is in conflict with U.S.A security interests; its subjective intention contradictswith Latin America's Social reality. The fourth part analyses the essential of Carter administration's human rightsdiplomacy toward Latin America. The author believes human rights diplomacy is thereaction of American culture to diplomacy; the important faction of U.S.A global strategy;the means of realizing U.S.national benefit. The epilogue deducts that the essential of Regan, Bush and Clinton government's...