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US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis // David Patrick Houghton.
remainder title:	US Foreign Policy & the Iran Hostage Crisis
Author:	Houghton, David Patrick,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491399
ISBN:	9780511491399 (ebook)

US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis /
Houghton, David Patrick,

US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis /US Foreign Policy & the Iran Hostage CrisisDavid Patrick Houghton. - 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in international relations ;75. - Cambridge studies in international relations ;71..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Jimmy Carter and the tragedy of foreign policy -- Locating the argument: review of the existing literature -- The origins of the crisis -- The waiting game -- Days of decision: the hostage rescue mission -- Hostages to history -- Some alternative explanations: non-analogical accounts of the Iran decision-making -- Dramatis Personae -- The major historical analogies used.

Why did a handful of Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979? Why did most members of the US government initially believe that the incident would be over quickly? Why did the Carter administration then decide to launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis examines these puzzles and others, using an analogical reasoning approach to decision-making, a theoretical perspective which highlights the role played by historical analogies in the genesis of foreign policy decisions. Using interviews with key decision-makers on both sides, Houghton provides an analysis of one of the United States' greatest foreign policy disasters, the events of which continue to poison relations between the two states. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy analysis and international relations.

ISBN: 9780511491399 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

684548
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: E183.8.I55 / H68 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 955.05/42

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