US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis

ISBN: 9780521805094 出版年：2001 页码：271 David Patrick Houghton Cambridge University Press

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.