David Houghton

Us Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis

Herausgeber: Biersteker, Thomas J.; Smith, Steve

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of one of the greatest foreign policy disasters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521801164
• ISBN-10: 0521801168
• Artikelnr.: 35675697

Inhaltsangabe

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. Conclusions
Appendix I. Dramatis personae
Appendix II. The major historical analogies used
Bibliography
Index.