There are signs that as president, Joe Biden could adopt a proactive human rights approach similar to Jimmy Carter's

During the 2018-2019 academic year, Joss Harrison was an undergraduate research assistant with the US Centre. As part of his work, he investigated the human rights-orientated foreign policy of the Jimmy Carter administration. Building on this work, he writes that the foreign policy rhetoric of the Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, has shown some close parallels with with the human rights policies of the Carter administration.