President Carter’s doctrine of liberalist foreign policy parallels President Obama’s 2015 NSS. The Carter administration’s foreign policy directed United States involvement away from power politics to a strategy of human rights and morality.24 (Hastedt, p.17) President Carter’s strategy instilled a cooperative security approach including diplomatic, information, military and economic considerations. Diplomatically, the Carter and Obama administrations focused on expanding democracy, sovereignty of nations, and instilling human rights. In contrast, each administration successfully negotiated unilateral treaties in SALT II and 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, however neither received prior approval from Congress. Informationally, Obama’s concerns of human