LEARNING OUTCOMES
The students should emerge from the course with a better understanding of the Cuban Missile Crisis in particular as well as more general issues of crisis bargaining and conflict resolution in a nuclear age.
SYLLABUS
Reading "One Hell of a Gamble" will give you the best historical account of the Cuban Missile Crisis available.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16: Setting the Stage
Introduction to the Cold War
The basics of nuclear diplomacy
Read Richter: "Perpetuating the Cold War"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17: The Build-Up to the Crisis
Domestic politics and foreign policy
The United States, the USSR and Cuba in the early 1960s
Read: Alison, Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18: The Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Communications, bargaining and blunders
Decision making and crisis bargaining
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19: The Lessons
The Cuban Missile Crisis: The lessons
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20: The Paper
Working on the paper
REQUIRED READING:
Students are expected to read the book by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble,” Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964.” New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1997, especially chapters 5-15.
There will be some short things to read during the class, mostly documents.
TEACHING METHODS
Short lectures, brief writing exercises.
ASSESSMENT
Four short responses to class work
Final 1000 word essay: Rough draft and final
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https://is.muni.cz/el/fss/podzim2023/MVZb2019/um/RichterPerpetuatingColdWar.pdf
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