Publication

Jun 2008

This paper emphasizes the lasting relevance and importance of the Cuban Missile Crisis as a historical case study. The author explains that the Missile Crisis is a classic example of the role personality in politics and discusses how it remains the best-documented study of presidential decision-making at a time of supreme national danger.

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Author Michael Dobbs
Series USIP Special Reports
Issue 205
Publisher United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Copyright © 2008 United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
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