Fifty Years of Revolution : Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World.
Title:
Fifty Years of Revolution : Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World.
Author:
Castro Mariño, Soraya M.
ISBN:
9780813043616
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (433 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Cuba
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Cuba in the Global Context -- 1. U.S. Policy toward Latin America since 1959: How Exceptional Is Cuba? -- 2. An Island on the Doorstep of the World: Cuba's Place in U.S. Global Visions -- 3. "Flicking the Eagle's Feathers"?: Cuba, Revolution, and the International System -- 4. Havana and Moscow: The Washington Factor -- 5. Does the Canada-Cuba Relationship Offer Any Lessons for Washington? -- 6. The European Union and Cuba -- Part II. Cuba and the United States, 1959-2009 -- 7. The Personal Is Political: Animus and Malice in the U.S. Policy toward Cuba, 1959-2009 -- 8. The Eisenhower-Castro Years: The United States, Cuba, and the Challenges of Change -- 9. The Kennedy-Castro Years -- 10. The Johnson-Nixon-Castro Years: Superpower Containment of Cuba -- 11. The Nixon-Ford-Castro Years -- 12. The Carter-Castro Years: A Unique Opportunity -- 13. The Reagan-Castro Years: The "New Right" and Its Anti-Cuban Obsession -- 14. The George H. W. Bush-Clinton-Castro Years: From the Cold War to the Colder War (1989-2001) -- 15. The George W. Bush-Castro Years -- 16. The New Cuban American Politics: Passion, Affection, Dollars, and the Emergence of MiHavana -- Part III. Visions of the Future -- 17. Transitology, Realpolitik-and Todo lo Contrario: Old and New Futures in U.S.-Cuban Relations -- 18. U.S.-Cuban Relations: Prospects for Cooperative Coexistence -- 19. The Time for Cuba Is Coming -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
In the years since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, eleven men have served as president of the United States, arguably the most powerful nation on earth. Yet none of them has been able to effect any significant change in the stalemate between the United States and Cuba, its closest neighbor not to share a land border. Fifty Years of Revolution features contributions from an international Who's Who gallery of leading scholars. The volume adopts a uniquely nonpartisan attitude, a departure from this topic's generally divisive nature. Emerging from a series of meetings, conference panels, and lectures, the book coheres more strongly than the typical essay collection. Organized to analyze--not describe--Cuba's foreign relations, the work examines sanctions, the embargo, regime change, Guantánamo, the exile community, and more. Drawing from personal experiences as well as recently declassified documents, these essays update, summarize, and explain one of the prickliest political issues in the Western Hemisphere today.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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