10. April 9-13: The Carter Years - Camp David and the Iran Hostage Crisis

M. The Camp David Accords

W. The Iranian Revolution and the Hostage Crisis

Readings:

David Farber, Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America’s First Encounter With Radical Islam, first half

Kamrava, The Modern Middle East, 138-169

William B. Quandt, "Camp David and Peacemaking in the Middle East," Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 3. (1986), pp. 357-377.

Supplemental Readings:

20 Years after the Hostages
Declassified documents on Iran and the United States