The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited

Author : J. Nathan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137114624

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The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited by J. Nathan Pdf

The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited is a comprehensive overview of the great cornucopia of new materials recently released by the Soviet Union, United States, and Cuba. The authors, some of whom were participants in the crisis, have all had a major role in bringing to light either significant reevaluations of the crisis, or in some cases, truly startling revelations of the extant wisdom surrounding much of the crisis. The collection, edited by a long-time student of the crisis, is a coherent, original, and up-to-date work that bears on a moment when the world, for good cause, held its breath in fear that the morning might bring the apocalypse.

Author : Mark J. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
ISBN : 1908857048

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Fifty Years On by Mark J. White Pdf

Author : Robert F. Kennedy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0393341534

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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy Pdf

"A minor classic in its laconic, spare, compelling evocation by a participant of the shifting moods and maneuvers of the most dangerous moment in human history."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F. Kennedy. In a new foreword, the distinguished historian and Kennedy adviser Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., discusses the book's enduring importance and the significance of new information about the crisis that has come to light, especially from the Soviet Union.

Author : Alex Mintz,Carly Wayne
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804796774

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The Polythink Syndrome by Alex Mintz,Carly Wayne Pdf

Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other relevant possibilities. But presidential advisory groups are often fragmented and divisive. This book therefore scrutinizes polythink, a group decision-making dynamic whereby different members in a decision-making unit espouse a plurality of opinions and divergent policy prescriptions, resulting in a disjointed decision-making process or even decision paralysis. The book analyzes eleven national security decisions, including the national security policy designed prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the decisions to enter into and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2007 "surge" decision, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program, the UN Security Council decision on the Syrian Civil War, the faltering Kerry Peace Process in the Middle East, and the U.S. decision on military operations against ISIS. Based on the analysis of these case studies, the authors address implications of the polythink phenomenon, including prescriptions for avoiding and/or overcoming it, and develop strategies and tools for what they call Productive Polythink. The authors also show the applicability of polythink to business, industry, and everyday decisions.

Author : Richard E. Neustadt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0801436222

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Report to JFK by Richard E. Neustadt Pdf

"The Anglo-American crisis arose from a massive misunderstanding between the two governments. The British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, had been operating on the assumption that Washington would proceed with, and sell for British use, an airborne missile system named Skybolt. In its defense planning the United Kingdom relied on Skybolt to sustain its nuclear deterrence. The Americans, however, decided to cancel the program. This decision rocked the British government and seriously strained Anglo-American relations, while its hasty resolution gave President de Gaulle of France an excuse to veto British membership in the European Economic Community."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume adds to the report itself Kennedy's comments about it, a glossary, a cast of characters, new information gleaned from recently declassified British files, and Neustadt's comparison of British and American governments both at the time of the Skybolt affair and at present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Don Munton,David A. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crise de Cuba, oct. 1962
ISBN : 0199795703

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The Cuban Missile Crisis by Don Munton,David A. Welch Pdf

In The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Concise History, Second Edition, Don Munton and David A. Welch distill the best current scholarship on the Cuban missile crisis into a brief and accessible narrative history. The authors draw on newly available documents to provide a comprehensive treatment of its causes, events, consequences, and significance. Stressing the importance of context in relation to the genesis, conduct, and resolution of the crisis, Munton and Welch examine events from the U.S., Soviet, and Cuban angles, revealing the vital role that differences in national perspectives played at every stage. While the book provides a concise, up-to-date look at this pivotal event, it also notes gaps and mysteries in the historical record and highlights important persistent interpretive disputes. The authors provide a detailed guide to relevant literature and film for those who wish to explore further. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the crisis, this revised and updated edition of The Cuban Missile Crisis is ideal for undergraduate courses on the 1960s, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, twentieth-century world history, and comparative foreign policy.

Author : Len Scott,R. Gerald Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317555414

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The Cuban Missile Crisis by Len Scott,R. Gerald Hughes Pdf

This volume brings together a collection of leading international experts to revisit and review our understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis, via a critical reappraisal of some of the key texts. In October 1962, humankind came close to the end of its history. The risk of catastrophe is now recognised by many to have been greater than realised by protagonists at the time or scholars subsequently. The Cuban missile crisis remains one of the mostly intensely studied moments of world history. Understanding is framed and informed by Cold War historiography, political science and personal experience, written by scholars, journalists, and surviving officials. The emergence of Soviet (later Russian) and other national narratives has broadened the scope of enquiry, while scrutiny of the operational, especially military, dimensions has challenged assumptions about the risk of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis: A Critical Reappraisal brings together world leading scholars from America, Britain, France, Canada, and Russia to present critical scrutiny of authoritative accounts and to recast assumptions and interpretations. The book aims to provide an essential guide for students of the missile crisis, the diplomacy of the Cold War, and the dynamics of historical interpretation and reinterpretation. Offering original ideas and agendas, the contributors seek to provide a new understanding of the secrets and mysteries of the moment when the world went to the brink of Armageddon. This book will be of great interest to students of the Cuban missile crisis, Cold War Studies, nuclear proliferation, international history and International Relations in general.

Author : Mark J. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349140565

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Kennedy: The New Frontier Revisited by Mark J. White Pdf

Leading Kennedy scholars along with a group of younger historians have mined recently declassified documentation in order to re-examine many of the key issues surrounding JFK's time in the White House: Vietnam, Cuban missile crisis, Berlin crisis, space race, and others. Rejecting the idolatry and bitterness evident in so many previous works on JFK, this study adopts an evenhanded, eclectic approach. The result is a less caricatured, more compelling view of the Kennedy presidency.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
ISBN : UOM:39015089062759

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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Taubman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393081725

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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman Pdf

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Ruler of the Soviet Union during the first decade after Stalin's death, Khrushchev left a contradictory stamp on his country and on the world. His life and career mirror the Soviet experience: revolution, civil war, famine, collectivization, industrialization, terror, world war, cold war, Stalinism, post-Stalinism. Complicit in terrible Stalinist crimes, Khrushchev nevertheless retained his humanity: his daring attempt to reform communism prepared the ground for its eventual collapse; and his awkward efforts to ease the cold war triggered its most dangerous crises. This is the first comprehensive biography of Khrushchev and the first of any Soviet leader to reflect the full range of sources that have become available since the USSR collapsed. Combining a page-turning historical narrative with penetrating political and psychological analysis, this book brims with the life and excitement of a man whose story personified his era.

Author : M. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230374508

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The Cuban Missile Crisis by M. White Pdf

Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis happen? How was it resolved? By focusing on the roles of a number of key individuals, such as JFK, Robert Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, and by using recently declassified materials, this book frames answers to these questions. In so doing, it presents a cluster of new findings and arguments, including a fresh interpretation of Khrushchev's motives for putting missiles in Cuba, new information on the mystery surrounding Senator Kenneth Keating's secret sources, and evidence indicating that JFK planned to carry out a military strike on Cuba at the start of the crisis.

Author : Graham T. Allison
Publisher : West Publishing Company
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Cold War
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017821673

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Essence of Decision by Graham T. Allison Pdf

Examines the political decisions made during the Missile Crisis.

Author : John Fitzgerald Kennedy,Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0930751175

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The Kennedy-Khrushchev Letters by John Fitzgerald Kennedy,Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev Pdf

A collection of 120 personal letters between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, kept secret until almost the year 2000, is published for the first time. They share congratulations about space achievements, mention vacations and share personal feelings and anecdotes.

Author : Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471114779

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Red Heat by Alex von Tunzelmann Pdf

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raúl; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.

Author : Peter T. Haydon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1993-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1568064136

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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 by Peter T. Haydon Pdf

Discusses & assesses the performance of Canadian political & military leaders during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which marked a turning point in Canadian civil-military relations. Haydon is a former officer in the Canadian Navy who took part in the Canadian response to the new Russian submarine threat to North America in October & November 1962. Maps, figures & photos.