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The renewed idealism: An analysis of the Kennedy administration decision-making process during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Posted on:2004-03-03Degree:DrType:Dissertation
University:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)Candidate:Gil Marin, Jose CarlosFull Text:PDF
GTID:1466390011973525Subject:History
Abstract/Summary:
This dissertation is an exhaustive investigation of the Cuban Missile Crisis decision-making processes. It relies on the latest sources and documents about the crisis from the United States and Cuba. The author develops this dissertation from his interdisciplinary interpretation, full of novelties.;At the center of the story thought is the decision-making process taken place in the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This dissertation analyses the evolution of the Kennedy Administration way to solve the crisis, but it also analyses the Cuban and the Soviet decision-making processes, and the relations between the main state actors involved as protagonists of the conflict: The USA, the Soviet Union and Cuba.;This dissertation is a new and original interpretation of the Cuban Missile Crisis causes, processes and consequences. It is a new and original interpretation of the time that made up the world's most dangerous nuclear crisis.
Keywords/Search Tags:Crisis, Decision-making, Kennedy administration, Dissertation
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