Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index.
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.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/cttbs65t
Constructing national interests.
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
National security-- United States-- History-- 20th century.