The Polish Desk: Radio Free Europe, Zbigniew Brzezinksi, and Jimmy Carter's Polish Policy 1976-1977.
Journal: NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries)
Year: 2011

This thesis focuses on Jimmy Carter's US-Polish policy as developed in the 1976 presidential campaign and employed in 1977.The policy was two-pronged: it sought to encourage both the Polish dissidents and the technocratic government of Edward Gierek through a blend of soft power tools, including human rights, Radio Free Europe, cultural exchanges, and economic incentives.Dealing with Warsaw on its own terms rather than through Moscow and extending economic aid to the Gierek regime was one side o