Constructing National Interests : The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis /
Not simply an "event" or merely an "incident," the 1962 standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of United States foreign policy. Here, Weldes analyzes the so-called...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: | Not simply an "event" or merely an "incident," the 1962 standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of United States foreign policy. Here, Weldes analyzes the so-called Cuban missile crisis as a means to rethink the idea of national interest, a notion central to both the study and practice of international relations |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (328 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780816688937 |