The Role of Public Diplomacy in the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Abstract In the context of international fight against terrorism, in the 21th century, we can talk of a reversion of the role of public diplomacy nowadays. Public diplomacy had a decisive role in the history of the world and also in the history of international relations. The structure of the paper consists in a short defining the concept of public diplomacy and its essential rules, the short description of the events of the Cuban missile crisis, the application of those rules on the topic of the Cuban missile crisis and the answers in brief to the questions placed above from a personal view of the events. Public diplomacy is a very good method of solving international problems and eliminating great threats on the existence of mankind. Certainly public diplomacy must be a complementary action to other solutions that may rescue relations between two states from degradation and from evolving to disastrous results for mankind such as the probability of the World War III as a result to the Cuban missile crisis. Introduction The theme of the Cuban missile crisis has been discussed from different points of view during the last few years. Te main subject of discussion was the way president Kennedy and the soviet premier Khrushchev acted and also the chronology of the events but an analysis of the most important decision in the crisis, making public the threats on USA’s security and also on the whole world’s security, was discussed from the perspective of good or bad choice. In this paper I try to see the Cuban missile crisis from the perspective of the public diplomacy. The importance of public diplomacy was marked by the events that took place in the 60’s. Those were the moments that brought into the light a new term, public diplomacy, that meant the exactly words, the power of the people that can change a political decision

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