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The quintessence of the solution. On the example of the Caribbean crisis of 1962
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The Quintessence of the Solution was first published in 1971 and immediately became a bestseller. Graham Allison's work contained a deep and comprehensive analysis of the decisions taken by the leadership of the United States and the USSR at the turning point of the nuclear age, which was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The book had a significant impact on several generations of political scientists and politicians; more than one generation of students of political science disciplines has grown up on it. Over the years that have passed since then, a lot of new information has appeared, theoretical analytical methods have developed in the field of studying international relations. Therefore, Allison, together with his colleague Philip Zelikow, significantly updated his classic work. Readers are now offered a translation of the second, revised and expanded edition of this excellent book. Much of the text has been rewritten, but the overall structure of the book has remained unchanged. Three main "theoretical" chapters discuss three conceptual models. Each "theoretical" chapter is followed by a "practical" one, in which the crisis is analyzed through the appropriate conceptual lens. The most important, in the opinion of the authors, issues of the Caribbean crisis are considered using each of the alternative prisms, using the most accessible facts from both published materials and unpublished primary sources. The analysis uses interdisciplinary methods from psychology, sociology, rational choice theory, game theory, organizational studies, and applied business models. New facts, revealed due to the declassification of previously closed archival documents and tape recordings, show that the explanations of some decisions of the leadership of the two countries, set out in the first edition, turned out to be incomplete or incorrect. As G. Allison and F. Zelikov themselves say, “the authors of the new, revised edition give great pleasure to see how these new testimonies played when viewed through alternative conceptual prisms.” The Quintessence of Decision provides a deep insight into questions that will never go out of date: how are decisions made, what guides those responsible for making decisions, and what are the components of this process? Using the models of analysis presented in this book, the thoughtful reader will be able not only to find explanations for the decisions made by governments, organizations, and even individuals, but often to predict them. The author of the preface to this work is one of the largest domestic political scientists - Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ex-Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation A.A. Kokoshin. The book is intended for scientists - political scientists and historians, for the teaching staff of universities teaching historical and political science disciplines, for students and graduate students of the relevant profile, as well as for all those interested in the problems of recent political history, the theory of world politics.
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| ISBNs | 978-5-397-06599-3 |
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| The weight | 0,505 kg |
| Size | 145 × 215 mm |
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