What is Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy in the Middle East?

Jimmy Carter had a different take on his foreign policy in the Middle East. After decades of war between the Arabs and Israelis, Carter played host to a meeting between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which started the unexpected peace opening between the two states in November 1977. To break the deadlock between two states, Carter invited them to Camp David where they agreed upon a framework for a “just, comprehensive, and durable settlement of the Middle East conflict” also known as the Camp David Accords. Despite the Carter Administration’s wanting to lessen the Soviet Union’s role in American Foreign Policy, the U.S. needed Soviet’s co-operation in order to realize some of its more ambitious foreign policy goals. Case in point: 1974 Vladivosok Accords. Due to the complications of the strategic arms control proposal, US-Soviet relations deteriorated which resulted in multiple sanctions imposed by the US against the Soviet Union.

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