TY  - BOOK
AU  - Houghton,David Patrick
TI  - US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis
T2  - Cambridge studies in international relations
SN  - 0521805090
AV  - E183.8.I55 H68 2001
U1  - 955.0542 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - 1977-1981
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Iran
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index; 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
N2  - "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. Twenty years after the failure of the hostage rescue operation, Houghton uses interviews with key decision-makers on both sides to reconsider these events - events 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."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -