Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Allyn, Bruce J.; Blight, James G.; Welch, David A.

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“…Lebow and Stein (1994) make a convincing case that the reinforcement of the deterrence logic as lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have had destabilising effects for the Cold War more broadly. The problems with the deterrence universal even during the Cuban Missile Crisis became all too obvious after the end of the Cold War when scholars and practitioners alike started to revisit the Cuban Missile Crisis (Allyn et al, 1989;Blight and Welch, 1989;Lebow and Stein, 1994;Scott and Smith, 1994;Allison and Zelikow, 1999;Blight and Lang, 2005;Grattan, 2006), with McNamara (1986 playing an important role in questioning the received wisdom.…”

Section: Studying Political Judgement: a Map For Empirical Researchmentioning

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Theagent'slogics of action: defining and mapping political judgement

Kornprobst

2011

Int Theory

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How do individual actors figure out what to do? This article advocates a departure from carving up research on this key question about political agency into narrow scholarly categories. Such categories, especially what has to become framed as incompatible logics of action in International Relations Theory, may make for neat and tidy scholarly boxes. But they miss the winding roads through which actors come to embark on a course of action. In order to overcome this shortcoming, I start with uncovering an important clue on which authors adhering to different logics of action converge; political agency has a lot to do with making judgements. I proceed with conceptualizing political judgement broadly in terms of subsuming particulars and universals. I follow-up with outlining a map for empirical research on judgement that helps us follow the actors in how they figure out what to do (the agent's logics of action) rather than superimposing our narrow scholarly categories on their reasoning (a scholarly logic of action). Scrutinizing the usefulness of this map, finally, I analyse McNamara's exercise of political agency during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The findings underline my overall argument: the inclusive conceptualization of political judgement, coupled with the balance of theoretical and empirical inquiry that the research map facilitates, improves on our understandings of how actors figure out what to do.

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Section: Studying Political Judgement: a Map For Empirical Researchmentioning

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Theagent'slogics of action: defining and mapping political judgement

Kornprobst

2011

Int Theory

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“…At a minimum, Soviet officials may have felt that the deployment of a few hundred MR-IRBMs would have the political payoff of blunting the U.S. strategic advantage, possibly permitting Moscow to regain the strategic initiative. 32 As it turned out, the Cuban experience highlighted problems associated with the USSR's inferior strategic position. Because of America's recognized preponderance of strategic power during the crisis, the USSR was at a disadvantage psychologically as well as militarily.…”

Section: Soviet Strategic Prioritiesmentioning

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Planes, Plans, Plots: How They Found the Missiles

Keithly¹

2013

JSS

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“…31 ACCEPTING THE ANALOGY It is difficult to agree, however, that the 'supposed symmetry between the two deployments was far from obvious' to Kennedy and his advisers. 32 The administration in fact privately acknowledged the Cuba-Turkey analogy, in the broadest sense, in three distinct ways. As the audio transcript for 16 October reveals, two of these variations emerged at the beginning of the crisis deliberations.…”

Section: The Cuba-turkey Analogymentioning

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Nuisance of decision: Jupiter missiles and the Cuban missile crisis

Nash¹

1991

Journal of Strategic Studies

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Essence of Revision: Moscow, Havana, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Cited by 31 publications

References 19 publications

Theagent'slogics of action: defining and mapping political judgement

Theagent'slogics of action: defining and mapping political judgement

Planes, Plans, Plots: How They Found the Missiles

Nuisance of decision: Jupiter missiles and the Cuban missile crisis

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