Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations

How Should We Now Play Ball?
2. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-28123-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Contemporary Inter-American Relations

The boundary between Cuba and the United States has become more and more porous, as have those with Latin America and the Caribbean. Never in the past half-century has Cuba’s leadership or its social and political fabric been so exposed to the influence of the outside world. In this book, an all-star cast of experts critically address the recent past and present in U.S.-Cuban relations in their full complexity and subtlety to develop a perspective on the evolution of the conflict and an inventory of forms of cooperation. This much needed approach provides a way to answer the questions "what has been.?" and "what is.?" while also thinking seriously about "what if.?"

To illustrate the most significant areas of U.S.-Cuban relations in the contemporary era, this newly updated edition of Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations adds six more themes to the study of this complex relation: political, security, economic, and cultural/academic issues; the triangular relations of the United States, Cuba, and Europe; and the politics of Cuban migration/emigration. Each topic is represented by perspectives from both Cuban and non-Cuban scholars, leading to a resource rich in insight and a model of transnational dialogue.

The future course of U.S.-Cuban relations will likely be more complex than in the past, not only because of the matrix of factors involved but also because of the number of actors. Such a multiplicity of domestic, regional, and global factors is unique; it includes the rise to power of new administrations in both countries since 2008. Raúl Castro became president of Cuba in February 2008 and Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States in January 2009. And it will feature the inauguration of a new president of the United States in January 2017 and a new president of Cuba, likely in February 2018.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dominguez, Jorge I.

Hernández, Rafael M.

Barberia, Lorena G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Baseball Game

Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael M. Hernández

Chapter 2: Intimate Enemies: Paradoxes in the Conflict between the United States and

Cuba

Rafael M. Hernández

Chapter 3: Reshaping the Relations between the United States and Cuba

Jorge I. Domínguez

Chapter 4: Cuba’s National Security vis-à-vis the United States: Conflict or Cooperation?

Carlos Alzugaray Treto

Chapter 5: Cuban-United States Cooperation in the Defence and Security Fields: Where

Are We? Where Might We Be Able to Go?

Hal Klepak

Chapter 6: Terrorism and the Anti-Hijacking Accord in Cuba’s Relations with the United

States

Peter Kornbluh

Chapter 7: The European Union and U.S.-Cuban Relations

Eduardo Perera Gómez

Chapter 8: European Union Policy in the Cuba-U.S.-Spain Triangle

Susanne Gratius

Chapter 9: U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Potential Economic Implications of Normalization

Archibald R. M. Ritter

Chapter 10: United States-Cuba Economic Relations: The Pending Normalization

Jorge Mario Sánchez Egozcue

Chapter 11: Cuba, Its Immigration and U.S.-Cuba Relations

Lorena G. Barberia

Chapter 12: U.S.-Cuba: Emigration and Bilateral Relations

Antonio Aja Díaz

Chapter 13: The Subject(s) of Academic and Cultural Exchange: Paradigms, Powers, and

Possibilities

Sheryl Lutjens

Chapter 14: Academic Diplomacy: Cultural Exchange between Cuba and the United

States

Milagros Martínez Reinosa

Appendix: Table of Contents, U.S.-Cuban Relations in the 1990s (Westview Press, 1989)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jorge I. Domínguez is the Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico and former Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a past President of the Latin American Studies Association.

Rafael M. Hernández is the Chief Editor of Temas, Cuba’s leading magazine in the social sciences. He has been Professor at the University of Havana; Director of U.S. studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre América; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Instituto "Juan Marinello" in Havana (1996–2008). He has published on Cuban and U.S. policies, inter-American relations, international security, migration, and Cuban culture, civil society, and politics.

Lorena G. Barberia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Her primary research and teaching interests are political economy, comparative politics, and political methodology. Much of her recent work is aimed at analyzing redistributive politics in Latin America.