The Cuban Missile Crisis: Reading the Lessons Correctly
Author(s): Richard Ned Lebow
Source: Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 98, No. 3 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 431-458
Published by: The Academy of Political Science
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The Cubai Missile Crisis:
Reading the Lessons Correctly

RICHARD NED LEBOW
The "lessons"of the Cuban missile crisis occupy a centralplace relationstheory. For both in United States foreign policy and in international the policymakers, crisisconfirmeda numberof tenetsabout the utilityof