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US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis / David Patrick Houghton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houghton, David Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international relations ; 75.
- Cambridge studies in international relations ; 75
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
- United States--Foreign relations--1977-1981--Decision making.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Iran.
- Iran--Foreign relations--United States.
- Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- US Foreign Policy & the Iran Hostage Crisis
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-12261-9
- 1-280-43037-0
- 0-511-17362-8
- 0-511-04142-X
- 0-511-15276-0
- 0-511-32768-4
- 0-511-49139-5
- 0-511-04756-8
- OCLC:
- 559155740
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