Constructing National Interests
Weldes, Jutta![Constructing National Interests](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/164/1645623/CHSBZCOP031645623.jpg)
Not simply an "event" or merely an "incident, " the 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which subsequently has achieved almost mythic significance in the annals of U.S. foreign policy. Jutta Weldes asks why this occurrence in particular should be cast as a crisis, and how this so significantly affected "the national interest." Here, Weldes analyzes the so-called Cuban missile crisis ...