Constructing national interests : the United States and the Cuban missile crisis / Jutta Weldes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weldes, Jutta.

Series:

Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 12.

Borderlines ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

National security--United States--History--20th century.

National security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8166-8893-1

OCLC:

227038268

Publisher Number:

9780816631100