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US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hosta...

Biersteker, Thomas.

US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Author:	Houghton, David Patrick.
other author:	Biersteker, Thomas.
Published:	Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.
Description:	271 p.
Subject:	Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
Online resource:	Click here to view book
ISBN:	9780511491399 (electronic bk.)

US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Houghton, David Patrick.

US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis.[electronic resource]. - Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001. - 271 p.

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Jimmy Carter and the tragedy of foreign policy; 2 Locating the argument: a review of the existing literature; 3 The origins of the crisis; 4 The waiting game; 5 Days of decision: the hostage rescue mission; 6 Hostages to history; 7 Some alternative explanations: non-analogical accounts of the Iran decision-making; 8 Conclusion; Appendix 1 Dramatis personae; Appendix 2 The major historical analogies used; Bibliography; Index

Why did Iranian students seize the American embassy in Tehran in 1979? Why did the Carter administration launch a rescue mission, and why did it fail so spectacularly? Using interviews with key decision-makers on both sides, this book provides an original analysis of a great foreign policy disaster.

Electronic reproduction.

Available via World Wide Web.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780511491399 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

322606
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

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

Dewey Class. No.: 327.73055

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