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

• Main Author: Wong, Tze Yung.
• Other Authors: Khong, Yuen Foong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14404
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...