Fifty Years of Revolution

by Marino, Soraya M. Castro; Pruessen, Ronald W.

• ISBN13: 9780813040233
• ISBN10: 081304023X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-23
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

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 Revolutionfeatures 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.

Author Biography

Soraya M. Castro Mario is professor at the Center for the Study of International Policy, Institute of International Relations in Havana, Cuba. Ronald W. Pruessen is professor in the University of Toronto's Department of History and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of John Foster Dulles: The Road to Power.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Cuba in the Global Context
U.S. Policy toward Latin America since 1959: How Exceptional Is Cuba?	p. 13
An Island on the Doorstep of the World: Cuba's Place in U.S. Global Visions	p. 30
"Flicking the Eagles Feathers"?: Cuba, Revolution, and the International System	p. 52
Havana and Moscow: The Washington Factor	p. 72
Does the Canada-Cuba Relationship Offer Any Lessons for Washington?	p. 90
The European Union and Cuba	p. 117
Cuba and the United States, 1959-2009
The Personal Is Political: Animus and Malice in the U.S. Policy toward Cuba, 1959-2009	p. 137
The Eisenhower-Castro Years: The United States, Cuba, and the Challenges of Change	p. 167
The Kennedy-Castro Years	p. 184
The Johnson-Nixon-Castro Years: Superpower Containment of Cuba	p. 199
The Nixon-Ford-Castro Years	p. 223
The Carter-Castro Years: A Unique Opportunity	p. 237
The Reagan-Castro Years: The "New Right" and Its Anti-Cuban Obsession	p. 261
The George H. W. Bush-Clinton-Castro Years: From the Cold War to the Colder War (1989-2001)	p. 279
The George W. Bush-Castro Years	p. 303
The New Cuban American Politics: Passion, Affection, Dollars, and the Emergence of MiHavana	p. 333
Visions of the Future
Transitology, Realpolitik-and Todo lo Contrario: Old and New Futures in U.S.-Cuban Relations	p. 349
U.S.-Cuban Relations: Prospects for Cooperative Coexistence	p. 359
The Time for Cuba Is Coming	p. 374
Bibliography	p. 383
List of Contributors	p. 401
Index	p. 409
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