Foreign Policy Toward Cuba Isolation or Engagement?

by Zebich-Knos, Michele; Nicol, Heather; Basdeo, Sahadeo; Black, Jan Knippers; Chun, Sung-Chang; Friedman, Douglas; Gladwin, Hugh; Grant, Cedric; Grenier, Guillermo J.; Heindl, Brett; Kirk, John M.; Klepak, Hal; Marino, Soraya Castro; McKenna, Peter; Scherle

• ISBN13: 9780739110249
• ISBN10: 0739110241
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Foreign Policy Toward Cuba is a timely exploration of the ways in which Cuba is understood in the Western Hemisphere. The book examines the depth of disagreement between different foreign policy-making communities, and the potential impacts of diverse national approaches--not just for Cuba, but for the whole Carribbean region.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Tables	ix
Preface	xi
1 Isolate or Engage? Divergent Approaches to Foreign Policy toward Cuba	1	(30)
Lana Wylie
2 U.S. Policy toward Cuba: Trends and Transformation during the George W. Bush Administration	31	(22)
Michele Zebich-Knos
3 The United States–Cuba Standoff: A Double Con?	53	(14)
Jan Knippers Black
4 Canada-Cuba Relations: Old Wine in New Bottles?	67	(20)
Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk
5 From Reasonable Steadiness to "from Crisis to Crisis": Mexico-Cuba Relations in the Post–Cold War Era	87	(20)
Hal Klepak
6 Cuba-CARICOM Relations since 1972: Challenge and Change in Regional Cooperation	107	(18)
Sahadeo Basdeo
7 Caribbean Community and Cuba Relations: Thirty Years Revisited	125	(14)
Cedric Grant
8 The Exile Ideology: Political Culture and Boundary Maintenance in the Cuban Enclave	139	(22)
Guillermo J. Grenier, Sung-Chang Chun, and Hugh Gladwin
9 From Miami with Love: Transnational Political Activism in the Cuban Exile Community	161	(30)
Brett Heindl
10 The Cuba–United States Conflict: Notes for Reflection in the Context of the War against Terrorism	191	(34)
Soraya Castro Mariño
11 Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba: U.S. Policy and the Cuban Reality	225	(18)
Douglas Friedman
12 "¡Venceremos!" Castro's Discourse on Cuba's Foreign Policy	243	(18)
Renee G. Scherlen
13 A Clash of Perspectives? Some Conclusions about the "Cuba Problem"	261	(8)
Heather N. Nicol
Index	269	(14)
About the Contributors	283