Walking on the Edge of the Abiss: Cuba 1962 Cover Image

Drumul pe marginea prăpastiei: Cuba 1962
Walking on the Edge of the Abiss: Cuba 1962

Author(s): Karin Meghesan
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: National Institute for Intelligence Studies
Keywords: Intelligence; crisis; political decision; Missiles Crisis.

Summary/Abstract: Examining past intelligence successes or failures provides a means for a bitter understanding of intelligence, its mission and role and its ability to provide timely and reliable information on all kind of threats. For intelligence and international relations students the understanding of intelligence input during a crisis like the Missiles Crisis is thus essential. As Siegel and Jackson (2005) said one of the biggest problems with much contemporary thinking about intelligence and international relations is a lack of historical context. So, our paper is also an open invitation for Romanian intelligence professionals and foreign policy analysts to elaborate, in light of their expertise and insight possibilities, intelligence case studies focused on Romanian experience, on Romanian successes or failures in gathering, analyzing or disseminating intelligence.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 27-52
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Romanian