ABSTRACT
President James Earl Carter has taken a bold initiative to make human rights a fundamental precept of US foreign policy. President Carter is to be commended for enhancing the priority of human rights considerations in US foreign policy decisionmaking as compared with the past. Equally significant, however, is the role of the Congress in providing the necessary leadership in taking legislative measures designed for the promotion and the advancement of human rights abroad. Lars Schoultz compares the Ford and Carter administrations' policies toward human rights in Latin America. He restricts his inquiry to the twenty-three aid-receiving nations in Latin America and uses the rather innovative technique of expert evaluation to measure the comparative level of human rights violations. James Nafziger considers such a shift to be in the national interest, furthering the advancement of human rights, and helping this country fulfill its global responsibilities.
