Constructing National Interests: The United States and the Cuban Missile Crisis Volume 12

by Jutta Weldes

Book Overview

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. Jutta Weldes asks why this occurrence in particular should be cast as a crisis, and how this so significantly affected "the national interest." Here, Weldes analyzes the so-called Cuban missile crisis as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816631115
• ISBN13: 9780816631117
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"