- “A new era in relations among the great powers would imply, as a lesson of the crisis, the acknowledgement of the sovereign interests of small countries and submission to the standards of international law.” (174)
Lesson: Missile Crisis illustrates the need for better international laws and institutions to defend small-state sovereignty.
Cited in Allyn, Bruce J., James G. Blight, and David A. Welch, eds. Back to the Brink: Proceedings of the Moscow Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis, January 27–28, 1989. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1992).
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- “As a result of the crisis, one lesson for Cuba was that, in the future, Cuba would have to be able to defend itself by its own means, on its own territory. Therefore, the consolidation of its own defensive capacity would thenceforth be the principal means of deterring the external threat.” (181)
Lesson: Missile Crisis illustrates Cuba’s need to provide for its own defense; it could not rely solely on the Soviet Union.
Cited in Blight, James G., David Lewis and David A. Welch, eds. Cuba Between the Superpowers: The Antigua Conference on the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Providence, RI: Center for Foreign Policy Development, 1991).
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