Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

Allison, G., & Zelikow, P. (1962). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1962

Link

https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/essence-decision-explaining-cuban-missile-crisis-2nd-ed

Cited from

military_strategic_studies

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Coercion
  • In international relations, its origin and paradigm substrate, it is the whole machinery of strategic pressure: coercive bombing and sanctions demanding policy change (compellence), nuclear and conventional deterrence preventing attack (deterrence), brinkmanship that manipulates shared risk, and escalation dominance that makes the coercer's threats credible — the 1962 Cuban quarantine (force missile withdrawal) and mutually assured destruction (prevent first strike) are the textbook compellent and deterrent cases of the same coercive logic.
• Compellence
  • The positive action-demand was withdrawal of the Soviet missiles already in Cuba

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