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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457389203321

Autore

Weldes Jutta

Titolo

Constructing national interests [[electronic resource] ] : the United States and the Cuban missile crisis / / Jutta Weldes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8166-8893-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Borderlines ; ; v. 12

Disciplina

327.7307291

973.922

Soggetti

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

National security - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.