Religious Freedom | Luke M Perez

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SPSA, Building the Strategy of Freedom

17 January 2019

“Building the Strategy of Freedom” examines the impact of Jimmy Carter’s and Ronald Reagan’s national security strategies on international religious freedom. I argue that each attempted to use religious freedom in order to achieve larger national security goals. Carter’s moderate success came at a strategic failure (Iranian Revolution and Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan) because he relied on strict substitution of policies. Reagan, however, relied on policy compliments and therefore achieved greater success fusing religious freedom into American grand strategy.