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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1999
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| Series: | Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;
v. 12. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816688937 0816688931 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
