Manchester University Press A precarious equilibrium. human rights and detente in jimmy carter's soviet policy, hardback/umberto tulli

Human rights and detente inextricably intertwined during Carters years.

By promoting human rights in the USSR, Carter sought to build a domestic consensus for detente; through bipolar dialogue, he tried to advance human rights in the USSR.

But, human rights contributed to the erosion of detente without achieving a lasting domestic consensus.