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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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Problem of National Interests; 1. Representing Missiles in Cuba; 2. The View from the ExComm; 3. Constructing National Interests; 4. Constructing the Cuban Missile Crisis: Cold War Representations; 5. Constructing the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Problem of Cuba; 6. Identity and National Interests: The United States as the Subject of the Cuban Missile Crisis; 7. National Interests and Common Sense; Notes; References; Index.
