Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?

In Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), Graham T. Allison posits three 'conceptual lenses' by which American and Soviet foreign policy decisions can be understood - the Rational Actor Model (M1), the Organizational Processes Model (M2) and the Governmental Polit...

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Main Author: Wong, Tze Yung.
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-144042020-11-01T08:37:42Z Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962? Wong, Tze Yung. Khong, Yuen Foong S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy In Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), Graham T. Allison posits three 'conceptual lenses' by which American and Soviet foreign policy decisions can be understood - the Rational Actor Model (M1), the Organizational Processes Model (M2) and the Governmental Politics Model (M3). This dissertation focuses on the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles on Cuba, and does so by examining the ability of the models in accounting for Soviet behaviour, in light of new evidence and recent information provided by a variety of primary and secondary sources. Master of Science (Strategic Studies) 2008-11-13T09:19:10Z 2008-11-13T09:19:10Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14404 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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Wong, Tze Yung.
Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
description In Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), Graham T. Allison posits three 'conceptual lenses' by which American and Soviet foreign policy decisions can be understood - the Rational Actor Model (M1), the Organizational Processes Model (M2) and the Governmental Politics Model (M3). This dissertation focuses on the Soviet decision to place nuclear missiles on Cuba, and does so by examining the ability of the models in accounting for Soviet behaviour, in light of new evidence and recent information provided by a variety of primary and secondary sources.
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author Wong, Tze Yung.
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title Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
title_short Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
title_full Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
title_fullStr Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
title_full_unstemmed Cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the Soviet insertion of nuclear missles into Cuba in 1962?
title_sort cuban missile crisis : how far do allison's models explain the soviet insertion of nuclear missles into cuba in 1962?
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