The Bush Administration''s Management of the Persian Gulf Crisis
碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所 === 82 === Robert McNamara has indicated immediately after the Cuba Missile Crisis in 1962 that "Today ther is no longer any such thing as strategy; there is only crisis management." The strategy of crisis management...
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1994
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| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 國際事務與戰略研究所 === 82 === Robert McNamara has indicated immediately after the Cuba
Missile Crisis in 1962 that "Today ther is no longer any such
thing as strategy; there is only crisis management." The
strategy of crisis management is to minimize costs and maximize
benefits and even achieve permanent peace. This thesis
discusses how the Bush Administration successful managed the
Persian Gulf Crisis. Besides the introduction, there are five
chapters in this thesis: 1.The theory of crisis management.
2.The reasons for the Bush Administration''s intervention in the
Gulf Crisis. 3.How America used crisis management strategy in
the Gulf Crisis: the use of carrots. 4.How America used crisis
management strategy in the Gulf Crisis: the use of sticks.
5.Conclusion. Five lessons have been drawn from this study:
1.Employ a carrot and stick strategy with flexibility. 2.Never
cut off channels of communications. 3.Crisis prevention is
better than crisis resolution. 4.There should be a balance
between means and ends. 5.In managing crisis, a small state
should seek external support to deal with the other side.
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