Carter Administration's Foreign Policy towards Indonesia—with Focus on Indonesia's Occupation of East Timor

XU Cong-cong

doi:10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2020.01.005

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2020.01.005

Carter Administration's Foreign Policy towards Indonesia—with Focus on Indonesia's Occupation of East Timor

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School of Society and History, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou Fujian 350117

Received date: 2019-11-11

Online published: 2020-04-09

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Regarding Indonesia's annexation of East Timor, the Carter government has inherited the acquiescence of Indonesia during the Ford period, ignoring Indonesia忆s atrocities in East Timor and continuing to give Indonesia a large amount of military assistance, which brought long-term and serious humanitarian disaster to the people of East Timor. In the later period, the Carter administration was under international pressure to pay more attention to the human rights situation in East Timor beyond the "right to self -determination" and to force Suharto to accept international human rights organizations' assistance to East Timor to demonstrate the moral superiority of its foreign policy. A series of US actions against East Timor have exposed the double standards behind the Carter Administration's human rights diplomacy. In the context of the international strategy of the Cold War, human rights have also become one of the tools for the United States to maximize national interests. Human rights diplomacy constitutes the main content of the Carter administration's foreign policy toward Indonesia. The United States' attitude toward Indonesia's military occupation of East Timor became the "touchstone" of Carter's human rights policy.

Key words： Carter administration; human rights diplomacy; Suharto; East Timor

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XU Cong-cong . Carter Administration's Foreign Policy towards Indonesia—with Focus on Indonesia's Occupation of East Timor[J]. Journal of Chaohu University, 2020 , 22(1) : 31 -37 . DOI: 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2020.01.005

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