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

Publication Info.	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 252 pages) : map.
Series	Cambridge studies in international relations ; 75
	Cambridge studies in international relations ; 75.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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.
Subject	Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981) (OCoLC)fst00978765
	Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977-1981 -- Decision making.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- Iran.
	Iran -- Foreign relations -- United States.
	HISTORY -- General.
	International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
	International relations -- Decision making. (OCoLC)fst00977062
	Iran. (OCoLC)fst01204889
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Gijzelingen.
	Politieke besluitvorming.
	Buitenlandse politiek.
	Geiselnahme.
	Außenpolitik.
	Iran.
	Tehran (Iran).
	United States.
Chronological Term	1977 - 1981
Added Title	United States foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis
Other Form:	Print version: Houghton, David Patrick. US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2001 0521801168 0521805090 (DLC) 00045453 (OCoLC)44969620
ISBN	051104142X (electronic bk.)
	9780511041426 (electronic bk.)
	9780511491399 (electronic bk.)
	0511491395 (electronic bk.)

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