POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Iran Hostage Crisis, Bush Doctrine, Car Bomb

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 341
• Professor: Daniel Douek

Document Summary

Lecture 13 / the us role / february 19, 2019. Roots of the us involvement: us had eschewed colonial involvement in 19th and early 20th century. Has the us unipolar moment passed: many would argue that the us, as a superpower, its status has been sent into a tailspin weakening of us alliances with nato member countries in the trump era (ukraine, germany) Iranian hostage crisis, 1979-80: 1978-9: cia analysts thought shah would survive revolution sweeping iranl as a result, Us did not swiftly evacuate tehran embassy: 4 nov. 1979: radical students affiliated with khomeini"s revolutionaries stormed us embassy, took 52 staff hostage, negotiations failed to secure hostages" release, 24 april 1980: us pres. Carter"s popularity plunged: 20 jan. 1981: iran releases hostages the day after regan is sworn in; unproven allegations by nsc member that reagan colluded with iran to delay release.