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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is book by political scientist Graham T. Allison analyzing the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and in doing so ...
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- Graham T. Allison
- 1971
- Governmental decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Jan 1, 1999 · Graham Allison is Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the bestselling author of Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap (2017); Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World (2013); Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004); and Essence of Decision: Explaining ...
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- 1999
- Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow
- Graham Allison, Philip Zelikow
This chapter comments on Graham Allison’s 1971 book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, a classic that occupies an important place in disciplines ranging from political science and public administration to international relations and business studies. Allison offers a critical analysis of governmental decision-making ...
The American Political Science Review. VOL. LXIII SEPTEMBER, 1969 NO. 3 CONCEPTUAL MODELS AND ‘ THE CUBANMISSILE CRISIS ”. GRAHAM T. ALLISON. Harvard University. The Cuban missile crisis is a seminal event. For thirteen davs of October1962,there was a higher probability that more human lives would end suddenly than ever before in history.
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The single best volume analyzing the defining moment in the nuclear age, the original edition of Essence of Decision is a classic work that has influenced generations of students, scholars, and policy makers. The new edition of this best-selling text includes comprehensive synthesis of all new evidence — including recently declassified Kennedy tapes and Soviet files. Not only revised, but ...
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three decision-making models fi rst used in 1971 to examine the Cuban Missile Crisis in greater detail. Foreign policy students are urged to think critically about the pre-dictability of foreign policy behaviour from rational, organizational, and governmen-tal perspectives, and to apply their ideas to both the Cuban Missile Crisis and a host of
May 12, 2020 · xii, 338 pages ; 21 cm Examines the political decisions made during the Missile Crisis "Written under the auspices of the Faculty Seminar on Bureaucracy, Politics, and Policy of the Institute of Politics, John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University."
