INTL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cuban Missile Crisis, Anti-Ballistic Missile, Nuclear Arms Race
28 Feb 2016
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Week seven: end of the cold war and nuclear weapons. Ids(mechanically go through) and short answer(spend sometime on the short article) Explaining the cuban missile crisis: rational actor model, organizational processes model, bureaucratic politics model, constructivism(how does she the construction of crisis in the first place) Setting the stage: cold war in the 1970s. Explaining the end of the cold war: took many by surprise, cause for self- reflection. The rise of constructivism. (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) The declining us, questioning whether us can maintain hegemony. Us loss in vietnam: a very divided us over this issue, the johnson has lined to the public about the administration/ govt"s involvement in the war loss of war. Period of d tente: easing of tensions of a previously tension relationship. Diplomatic relationship when they started to negociate: salt i: strategic arm alliance talk, talk on ballistic missiles. How many can they have at one time.
