is often in spite of, rather than because of, the resources of the institutionalized presidency at their disposal. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 provides a case study of how John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev almost blundered into a nuclear war through the crisis management approaches of their advisory systems, but then managed to extricate themselves using personal diplomacy and old-fashioned political horsetrading. They did so without revealing to the world how they had defused the crisis
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pulling with it. Recently, we have been reading with great interest the debate in the Philippine press-- the most substantive debate on foreign policy we have seen here-- on how to deal with China. But we are bothered by a few things. Let’s get some facts straight first. The Philippines is not a ‘small’ country and it is not a ‘powerless’ country. It’s going beyond even being a middle-sized country as it hits the 100million mark. In all respects, China is bigger, richer, and far more militarily
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Nicholas Brzosko Mr. Dormer Modern U.S 12 March 2015 The United States and Soviet Union Space Race Different ideals discriminated the two super powers. Ideals that are the antithesis of one another created an oscillating spectrum, ranging from inhibiting to creating a pandemic. The launch of the Sputnik by the USSR exacerbated the tension in the U.S. Terrified of the new gauged potential; the Americans entered the space race. The launch of the sputnik was the inception of the space race. The
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the arrival of the Soviet fleet. The blockade was ordered to prevent the Soviet Union from sending more nuclear missiles to Cuba, which the Russians denied. If one of the Soviet boats crossed the line, the military response could lead to a nuclear war. Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union, has been aggressive in denouncing the quarantine. President Kennedy sat in the room with Robert, waiting for the news
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and the possible result of nuclear war. US President Kennedy’s threat to use nuclear missiles against the Soviet Union if their bases in Cuba were not withdrawn caused fear across the world. The development of the nuclear arms race saw in 69 the USSR had matched the nuclear capability of the US for Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). The SU overcame the gap that forced their retreat in the Cuban Missile Crisis. This posed an immense threat of an expensive nuclear war. The superpowers now needed a sensible
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Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).:d Nicholas White; p Nicholas White; c Chris Openshaw Chile: The Other 9/11 is a documentary by the BBC which details the hour-by hour events of the military coup that led General Augusto Pinochet to power during the Cold War. On September 11th, 1973 President Salvador Allende was warned of a possible rebellion but continued on to the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in Santiago, Chile. That day President Allende sent out a broadcast that he will not step down. Allende
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without a world war, in these times of maximum confrontations, of violent clashes and sudden changes, appears to be a very high figure. However, without analysing the practical results of this peace (poverty, degradation, increasingly large exploitation of enormous sectors of humanity) for which all of us have stated that we are willing to fight, we would do well to inquire if this peace is real. 79 It is not the purpose of these notes to detail the different conflicts of a local character
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presidential election in 1952. As a result, there was a change in leadership on both sides, which naturally had a large effect on the progress and course of the Cold War. The period that followed the death of Stalin and the election of Eisenhower was one of general improvement of superpower relations and therefore the period is named the ‘Thaw’. Some believe that this was due to Khrushchev’s policy of peaceful coexistence, which he brought about due to various factors such as mutual nuclear destruction
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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 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2150497 Accessed: 10/11/2008 23:45 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in
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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 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2150497 Accessed: 10/11/2008 23:45 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides
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