Essence of Decision¶
Allison, G., & Zelikow, P. (1999). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Primes¶
- Brinkmanship
- In crisis diplomacy the Cuban Missile Crisis is canonical: a naval quarantine raised the probability of a shooting incident, the commitment to the quarantine made backing down costly, and the eventual withdrawal was a yield to the probability slope rather than to a threat of certain strike.
This sourceDefinitive analysis of the Cuban Missile Crisis, documenting the naval quarantine as a probability-ramping commitment, the ceded control to ships/submarines/local commanders, the residual risk of uncontrolled escalation, and the face-saving reciprocal off-ramp.
- In crisis diplomacy the Cuban Missile Crisis is canonical: a naval quarantine raised the probability of a shooting incident, the commitment to the quarantine made backing down costly, and the eventual withdrawal was a yield to the probability slope rather than to a threat of certain strike.
Domain-specific¶
- Chicken Game
- Kennedy's naval "quarantine" and public ultimatum functioned as a visible, hard-to-reverse commitment that raised the cost of U.S. retreat, while Khrushchev's eventual withdrawal of the missiles — in exchange for a public U.S. no-invasion pledge and a quiet removal of U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey — was the opponent's swerve
This sourceThe documentary basis for the historical particulars — the quarantine and ultimatum, the American noninvasion pledge, and the quiet Jupiter-missile withdrawal from Turkey, which the second edition establishes from the Kennedy tapes.
- Kennedy's naval "quarantine" and public ultimatum functioned as a visible, hard-to-reverse commitment that raised the cost of U.S. retreat, while Khrushchev's eventual withdrawal of the missiles — in exchange for a public U.S. no-invasion pledge and a quiet removal of U.S. Jupiter missiles from Turkey — was the opponent's swerve
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