Failing the Crystal Ball Test - The Carter Administration and the Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran

With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels. Seliktar first examines how social science paradigms determine conceptualizations of political change, and then applies that analysis to understanding New Internationalism, the Carter administration's foreign policy philosophy at the time of the Shah's fall from power. Based in part on classified documents seized during the takeover of the American embassy, Failing the Crystal Ball Test is a valuable addition to Middle Eastern studies, international relations, and comparative politics collections.

Seliktar engages in a general discussion of the problems entailed in correctly assessing the political legitimacy of foreign regimes, and describes the origins of New Internationalism as influenced by the New Left dependency theories. Examining President Carter's application of New Internationalism to Iran, Seliktar presents an account first of political influences on the predictive process during the early stages of revolution, and then of the administration's misreading of the likelihood of a fundamentalist regime in Teheran.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Predicting Political Change
Theories of Political Change and Predictions of Change
Paradigmatic Views of Political Change: Developmentalism vs. Dependency
Road Testing New Internationalism: The Iran Policy of the Carter Administration
In the Eye of the Storm: The Carter Administration and the Iranian Revolution
Dealing with Chaos: The Carter Administration and the Successor Regime in Iran
Conclusion: Reflections on Predictive Failures

Über den Autor / die Autorin

OFIRA SELIKTAR is Professor of Political Science at Gratz College, and the author of Failing the Crystal Ball Test.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ofira Seliktar, Seliktar Ofira
• Verlag: Bloomsbury
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.08.2000
• EAN: 9780275968724
• ISBN: 978-0-275-96872-4
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; USA, Iran, American History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Political science & theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions