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b2bde897-caff-46ae-a3b5-51e3cb1a8349
Author Analytic
Guttieri, Karen; Michael D. Wallace and Peter Suedfeld
Author Combination
Guttieri, Karen; Michael D. Wallace and Peter Suedfeld
Title Analytic
THE INTERGRATIVE COMPLEXITY OF AMERICAN DECISION MAKERS IN THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Title Combination
THE INTERGRATIVE COMPLEXITY OF AMERICAN DECISION MAKERS IN THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Journal Title
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Date of Publication
1995
Volume ID
39
Location in Work
595-621
Location URL
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022002795039004001
Notes
Last Accessed Online 2023 January 7.
Abstract
The focus of this study is the integrative complexity of information processing of Kennedy administration officials before, during, and after the Cuban missile crisis (CMC). Three elements of the CMC decision-making environment have been commonly noted: a high level of stress, ideological disputes among the decision makers, and the need to present a policy outcome palatable to the American public. Overall, American leaders maintained moderate levels of integrative complexity through even the most dangerous moments of the crisis but showed a pattern compatible with the cognitive manager and disruptive stress models of complexity change in response to environmental challenge. There was no significant difference in the complexity of remarks of the so-called hawks and doves among the Kennedy team, calling into question either the veracity of the alleged rift or the manifestations of value conflict in complexity data. Leadership statements made in camera were significantly more complex than public presentations.
Call Number
752.G8.I5 (VF)
Keywords
Decision Making ;
War ;
Politics ;
Communications ;
Stress ;
