The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

✍ Scribed by James A. Nathan (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 1992
Tongue: English
Leaves: 310
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Heyday of the New Strategy: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Confirmation of Coercive Diplomacy....Pages 1-39
The Cuban Missile Crisis: An Overview....Pages 41-53
Reconsidering the Missile Crisis: Dealing with the Problems of the American Jupiters in Turkey....Pages 55-129
The View from Washington and the View from Nowhere: Cuban Missile Crisis Historiography and the Epistemology of Decision Making....Pages 131-160
The Traditional and Revisionist Interpretations Reevaluated: Why Was Cuba a Crisis?....Pages 161-186
Thirteen Months: Cuba’s Perspective on the Missile Crisis....Pages 187-217
President Kennedy’s Decision to Impose a Blockade in the Cuban Missile Crisis: Building Consensus in the ExComm After the Decision....Pages 219-235
Before “The Missiles of October”: Did Kennedy Plan a Military Strike Against Cuba?....Pages 237-280
The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters: An Overview....Pages 281-296
Back Matter....Pages 297-302

✦ Subjects

Latin American Culture; History of the Americas; European Politics; Modern History; International Relations; Military and Defence Studies

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