Hello once again interested readers. As of this week
I have placed the focus of my work on selecting the sources that I will be
using to establish the relationship between the U.S. and Iran during the
various presidencies from 1979 to the present. The source that I previously
employed in my paper on Iran titled “Iran, Gulf Security, and U.S. Policy” was
crucial in helping me to chronologically order the evolution of Iran since the
revolution, and the source also served as a baseline for me to understand which
presidencies I should be aware of off the bat.
I first began my work by going to the Congressional Research Service website and using the search function to look up any documents written about the presidencies I was concerned with. I began with looking for sources about the latter portion of Jimmy Carter’s presidency and then eliminating sources that did not examine policies and relations during the time period. The first source that I found to be of relevance to my paper was one titled “A "hollow army" reappraised: President Carter, defense budgets, and the politics of military readiness.” This source focused most significantly on President Carter’s military and defense policies, indicating how his budget choices and policies affected the future of the U.S. and the countries that it had to face on the global stage. While I was initially unsure on how useful this source would prove to be, it ended up providing both insight into specific military policies that Carter enacted and the global reaction to these policies, including the reaction in areas like the Middle East and specifically Iran.
Iran and the Iranian hostage crisis were not the focus of the source, however, so I then went on to examine a source entitled “The Carter Administration.” While not immediately apparent, this source places its focus on the events and policies preceding, during, and following the Iranian hostage crisis, directly attempting to categorize the causes and reason for the hostage situation. This source looked to have all of the information that I would need for this part of my research, so I quickly began to get into the specific actions and events that it mentioned as major causes of the hostage crisis. Considering the fact that the hostage crisis was a very vitriolic and negative reaction to the U.S. and its policy, I began to categorize the major Carter actions and policies as ineffective or poor at dealing with Iran.
The first major factor that the source cited as catalyzing the crisis was post-revolution Iran’s perception of the U.S. as “heavily or over-involved” in its national affairs. The second factor was Carter’s choice to provide asylum to the previous Shah of Iran for the medical treatments he sought in the U.S. Iranians perceived this as a direct betrayal and believed that the Shah should have been brought back to Iran and tried for war crimes. From this source it was clear that post-revolution Iran was no longer going to tolerate large U.S. involvement in its affairs or any U.S. interference with its national priorities, meaning that policies that did either would likely be inefficient and could even result in hostility with Iran. This week basically consisted of the conclusions that I have made about the Carter administration and I plan to look to the two terms of Ronald Reagan for my next week of work.
I first began my work by going to the Congressional Research Service website and using the search function to look up any documents written about the presidencies I was concerned with. I began with looking for sources about the latter portion of Jimmy Carter’s presidency and then eliminating sources that did not examine policies and relations during the time period. The first source that I found to be of relevance to my paper was one titled “A "hollow army" reappraised: President Carter, defense budgets, and the politics of military readiness.” This source focused most significantly on President Carter’s military and defense policies, indicating how his budget choices and policies affected the future of the U.S. and the countries that it had to face on the global stage. While I was initially unsure on how useful this source would prove to be, it ended up providing both insight into specific military policies that Carter enacted and the global reaction to these policies, including the reaction in areas like the Middle East and specifically Iran.
Iran and the Iranian hostage crisis were not the focus of the source, however, so I then went on to examine a source entitled “The Carter Administration.” While not immediately apparent, this source places its focus on the events and policies preceding, during, and following the Iranian hostage crisis, directly attempting to categorize the causes and reason for the hostage situation. This source looked to have all of the information that I would need for this part of my research, so I quickly began to get into the specific actions and events that it mentioned as major causes of the hostage crisis. Considering the fact that the hostage crisis was a very vitriolic and negative reaction to the U.S. and its policy, I began to categorize the major Carter actions and policies as ineffective or poor at dealing with Iran.
The first major factor that the source cited as catalyzing the crisis was post-revolution Iran’s perception of the U.S. as “heavily or over-involved” in its national affairs. The second factor was Carter’s choice to provide asylum to the previous Shah of Iran for the medical treatments he sought in the U.S. Iranians perceived this as a direct betrayal and believed that the Shah should have been brought back to Iran and tried for war crimes. From this source it was clear that post-revolution Iran was no longer going to tolerate large U.S. involvement in its affairs or any U.S. interference with its national priorities, meaning that policies that did either would likely be inefficient and could even result in hostility with Iran. This week basically consisted of the conclusions that I have made about the Carter administration and I plan to look to the two terms of Ronald Reagan for my next week of work.
Regards,
Lazar Vukcevic
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