James G Blight
Biographic Data
| ID | 519372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James G Blight |
| GIVEN NAMES | James G |
| FAMILY NAME | Blight |
| SIGNATURE | BLIGHT J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Balsillie School of International Affairs |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Companion to John F. Kennedy
This is a terrific book. Everyone interested in John F. Kennedy should own it. (This seems unlikely, however, because the book sells for almost $200!) In it, the editor Marc J. Selverstone performs a bit of scholarly magic: he has tightly organized, edited, and introduced the volume, and he has gotten his authors to provide thirty different riffs on what he regards as the driving force behind the uniqueness and undiminished interest in the Kenned…
Becoming Enemies
Foreword: By Bruce Riedel. Part I: The U.S. and Iran: How Enemy Has Become Our Masterpiece. Prologue: Kierkegaard in the Desert: Reader's Guide to Becoming Enemies. Dramatis Personae: Who's Who at the Musgrove Conference. Chapter One: How It Came to This: The Evolution of Dueling U.S. and Iranian Narratives. Part II: The Musgrove Conference: Critical Oral History of the Origins of U.S.-Iranian Enmity. Chapter Two: The U.S. Confronts The Islamic R…
When Empathy Failed
Drawing on “critical oral history” conferences held after the demise of the Soviet Union, this article seeks to explain why the détente in U.S.-Soviet relations collapsed at the end of the 1970s. Both the U.S. president, Jimmy Carter, and the Soviet Communist Party leader, Leonid Brezhnev, had sought to improve bilateral ties, but instead they found that the relationship deteriorated and then broke down altogether after the Soviet invasion of Afg…
Reply to the Commentaries
April 01 2010 Reply to the Commentaries James G. Blight, James G. Blight James G. Blight holds the CIGI Chair in Foreign Policy Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar janet Lang janet Lang janet Lang is a research professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Search…
Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived
The Virtual JFK DVD is now available! For more information on the film companion to the book, visit http://www.virtualjfk.com/ It Matters Who Is President—Then and Now At the heart of this provocative book lies the fundamental question: Does it matter who is president on issues of war and peace? The Vietnam War was one of the most catastrophic and bloody in living memory, and its lessons take on resonance in light of America's current devastating…
Robert McNamara
Lesson number one
The authors analyze the role of Ralph K. White's concept of empathyQquot; in the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and firebombing in World War II. They focus on the empathy-in hindsight-of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, as revealed in the various proceedings of the Critical Oral History Project, as well as Wilson's Ghost and Errol Morris's The Fog of War
American Tragedy
It sounds like a cliché, but it is true: democracy, to fulfill its promise as the best of human traditions, requires enlightened leadership. According to David Kaiser, the generation of Americans who came of age in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s felt blessed in that regard. By shepherding the battered national economy out of the Great Depression and leading the Grand Alliance to resounding victory over fascism, the government in Washington had pro…
Wilson's Ghost
Argument without End
Argument without End
Politics of Illusion
Politics of Illusion
Based on an innovative series of meetings that brought together former CIA officials, former anti-Castro Cuban operatives, and others who were directly involved in the attempted April 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron), this critical oral history belies the mythology surrounding the event
The Cuban missile crisis
Burden of nuclear responsibility
Results are presented from a multiyear project on the Cuban Missile Crisis that involved high-level U.S., Russian, and Cuban former officials, declassified documents, and scholarly specialists. This method, called critical oral history, is described as an applied phenomenological psychology; it's goal has been to reconstruct the psychological reality of decision makers in October 1962. The missile crisis was found to be more dangerous than previo…
Cuba on the Brink
Risking “The Destruction of Nations
The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of Peter Feaver, Nancy Gallagher, Thomas Graham, Richard Ned Lebow, Scott Sagan, and Melissa Williams, as well as the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation
Cuba on the Brink
Must the grass still suffer? Some thoughts on third world conflicts after the cold war
(1992). Must the grass still suffer? Some thoughts on third world conflicts after the cold war. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 229-253
USSR's Third World orphans
In his 1991 State of the Union address, President George Bush proclaimed, as was his custom, that 'we have before us the long-held promise of a New World Order' .' Like Presidents Wilson and Truman before him, President Bush sought to build a stable, lawful peace on the foundation of military victory. Many doubt whether this goal is attainable, and suspect that a more reasonable hope is, in the phrase of the editors of the New Republic, 'the chan…
Psychological Dimensions of War
Triangular Mutual Security
We argue that as the superpowers move closer together, they need to ensure that security concerns of Third World states are taken into account. Otherwise, Moscow and Washington may face risks to their own security. This imperative applies especially to times of crisis, when deals struck at the superpower level may exacerbate fears of states who see their security being bargained away, thus leading to dangerous reactions. We illustrate our argumen…
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
On the Brink
The Shattered Crystal Ball
On the Brink
Cuba on the Brink
An Introduction to the ExComm Transcripts
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED T -M^he Cuban missile crisis has assumed genuinely mythic significance. Dean Rusk called it most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came eyeball to eyeball. Theodore Sorensen called it the Gettysburg of the Cold War. For Arthur Schles inger, Jr., it was finest hour of the Kennedy presidency; a moment of maximum nuclear peril traversed without catas trophe. Many p…
How Might Psychology Contribute to Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War
Tour d'horizon des tentatives des psychologues dans le domaine de la reduction du risque de guerre nucleaire. Efforts tendus vers les causes profondes du risque (les relations USA-URSS), les causes intermediaires (rationalite imparfaite des decisionnaires) et les causes precipitantes (effets du stress). Toutefois les responsables de la politique etrangere qui gerent le risque de guerre nucleaire operent virtuellement hors de portee des psychologu…
Lesson number one
The authors analyze the role of Ralph K. White's concept of empathyQquot; in the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, and firebombing in World War II. They focus on the empathy-in hindsight-of former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, as revealed in the various proceedings of the Critical Oral History Project, as well as Wilson's Ghost and Errol Morris's The Fog of War
October 27, 1962
The Shattered Crystal Ball
American Tragedy
It sounds like a cliché, but it is true: democracy, to fulfill its promise as the best of human traditions, requires enlightened leadership. According to David Kaiser, the generation of Americans who came of age in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s felt blessed in that regard. By shepherding the battered national economy out of the Great Depression and leading the Grand Alliance to resounding victory over fascism, the government in Washington had pro…
Burden of nuclear responsibility
Results are presented from a multiyear project on the Cuban Missile Crisis that involved high-level U.S., Russian, and Cuban former officials, declassified documents, and scholarly specialists. This method, called critical oral history, is described as an applied phenomenological psychology; it's goal has been to reconstruct the psychological reality of decision makers in October 1962. The missile crisis was found to be more dangerous than previo…
Psychological Dimensions of War
Essence of Revision
Can Psychology Help Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War
Nuclear psychology, which began with the very best of intentions is, according to this article, doomed to failure and perpetual irrelevance unless it begins to take what the author refers to as a phenomenological approach to the subject. So far, too much attention has been given to "off-the-shelf' models derived from the psychological clinic and laboratory, and too little attention has been given to the actual perspective of nuclear policy makers…
Risking “The Destruction of Nations
The authors wish to acknowledge the helpful comments of Peter Feaver, Nancy Gallagher, Thomas Graham, Richard Ned Lebow, Scott Sagan, and Melissa Williams, as well as the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
Wilson's Ghost
USSR's Third World orphans
In his 1991 State of the Union address, President George Bush proclaimed, as was his custom, that 'we have before us the long-held promise of a New World Order' .' Like Presidents Wilson and Truman before him, President Bush sought to build a stable, lawful peace on the foundation of military victory. Many doubt whether this goal is attainable, and suspect that a more reasonable hope is, in the phrase of the editors of the New Republic, 'the chan…
Argument without End
The Cuban missile crisis
Triangular Mutual Security
We argue that as the superpowers move closer together, they need to ensure that security concerns of Third World states are taken into account. Otherwise, Moscow and Washington may face risks to their own security. This imperative applies especially to times of crisis, when deals struck at the superpower level may exacerbate fears of states who see their security being bargained away, thus leading to dangerous reactions. We illustrate our argumen…
On the Brink
The New Psychology of War and Peace
"Limited" Nuclear War
Every significant debate in the West concerning nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and the contemplation and possible conduct of nuclear war has revolved, at its core, around a single unresolved issue: Is the nuclear age qualitatively different from anything that has gone before or do our basic concerns, problems, and options remain unchanged? Are nuclear weapons just weapons, to be used for all the political and military purposes for which weapo…
Montaigne On Tutoring
Solomon Stoddard'ssafety of appearing and the dissolution of the puritan faculty psychology
The Structure of Historians' Revolutions
Authoritarianism in Western Educational Thought
Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis. John Forrester
Nuclear Arms
Journal Article Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics, by R. James Woolsey Get access Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics edited by R. James Woolsey. San Francisco, ICS Press, 1984. 289 pp. Paper, $8.95. James G. Blight James G. Blight Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 3, Fall 1985, Pages 526–527, https://doi.org/10.2307/2151085 Publis…
"Limited" Nuclear War
Every significant debate in the West concerning nuclear weapons, nuclear strategy, and the contemplation and possible conduct of nuclear war has revolved, at its core, around a single unresolved issue: Is the nuclear age qualitatively different from anything that has gone before or do our basic concerns, problems, and options remain unchanged? Are nuclear weapons just weapons, to be used for all the political and military purposes for which weapo…
The New Psychology of War and Peace
How Might Psychology Contribute to Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War
Tour d'horizon des tentatives des psychologues dans le domaine de la reduction du risque de guerre nucleaire. Efforts tendus vers les causes profondes du risque (les relations USA-URSS), les causes intermediaires (rationalite imparfaite des decisionnaires) et les causes precipitantes (effets du stress). Toutefois les responsables de la politique etrangere qui gerent le risque de guerre nucleaire operent virtuellement hors de portee des psychologu…
Toward a policy-relevant psychology of avoiding nuclear war
Toward a policy-relevant psychology of avoiding nuclear war
October 27, 1962
An Introduction to the ExComm Transcripts
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED T -M^he Cuban missile crisis has assumed genuinely mythic significance. Dean Rusk called it most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came eyeball to eyeball. Theodore Sorensen called it the Gettysburg of the Cold War. For Arthur Schles inger, Jr., it was finest hour of the Kennedy presidency; a moment of maximum nuclear peril traversed without catas trophe. Many p…
Must the psychology of avoiding nuclear war remain free and insignificant
Must the psychology of avoiding nuclear war remain free and insignificant
Can Psychology Help Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War
Nuclear psychology, which began with the very best of intentions is, according to this article, doomed to failure and perpetual irrelevance unless it begins to take what the author refers to as a phenomenological approach to the subject. So far, too much attention has been given to "off-the-shelf' models derived from the psychological clinic and laboratory, and too little attention has been given to the actual perspective of nuclear policy makers…
Peace and Security Studies
Essence of Revision
On the Brink
Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis
On the Brink
The Shattered Crystal Ball
On the Brink
Triangular Mutual Security
We argue that as the superpowers move closer together, they need to ensure that security concerns of Third World states are taken into account. Otherwise, Moscow and Washington may face risks to their own security. This imperative applies especially to times of crisis, when deals struck at the superpower level may exacerbate fears of states who see their security being bargained away, thus leading to dangerous reactions. We illustrate our argumen…
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