Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Historical Background of United States-Cuban Relations (1800-1959) Chapter 3 2. U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Following the Triumph of the Revolution Chapter 4 3. The Missile Crisis or the October Crisis? Chapter 5 4. U.S.-Cuban Relations After the October Crisis (1963-1979) Chapter 6 5. The Renewal of the Cold War Against Cuba After 1979 Chapter 7 6. U.S.-Cuban Relations After the Collapse of the USSR (1989-1999) Chapter 8 7. U.S. Economic Interests in Cuba Chapter 9 8. Contemporary U.S.-Cuban Policy (2000-Present) Chapter 10 9. Conclusion
Esteban Morales Dominguez is professor of political economy and director emeritus of the Center for the Study of the United States. Gary Prevost is a professor in the department of political science at Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Most experts would agree that Cuba's relationship with the United
States during the last fifty years is probably the least understood
aspect of contemporary Cuban history. Placing the relationship in
historical context, Morales and Prevost provide a most useful and
necessary overview of the origins and development of the
relationship, which helps the reader understand the complexities,
subtleties, and realities that have characterized U.S.-Cuba
relations from Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush. This highly
readable, concise, and perceptive work of this most complex
relationship is also timely, as the Cuban Revolution turns fifty,
facing a sea of challenges, doubts, and uncertainties. Morales and
Prevost must be commended for producing what is likely to become a
standard for the study of U.S.-Cuba relations.
*Felix Masud-Piloto, DePaul University*
Most Americans view Cuba as being almost providentially assigned to
the US orbit, and thus view relations between the two nations since
the onset of the Cuban Revolution as an aberration instead of a
culmination. This slim, well-written volume will do a lot to dispel
that notion....This work is especially strong in providing a new
framework for understanding relations. It is also very strong in
detailing relations since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and
the onset of the 'special period.' ...Recommended.
*CHOICE, February 2009*
This is a most readable account of U.S.-Cuban relations since 1959,
i.e., of continuing U.S. efforts to dominate the island and of
Cuba?s to thwart those efforts. The authors make the very useful
point that U.S. policy cannot be explained simply as a device to
assure the support of the Cuban-American community?a community
which, in any event, is coming to have growing doubts about that
policy. Rather, it has to do with a mind-set stretching back into
early American history: that is, that in the rightful order of
things, Cuba ought to be controlled by the United States. In that
same context, the authors note that the neo-cons around Bush
'consider the continuation of the socialist project in Cuba to be
an affront to their plans for U.S. global hegemony.' And thus, even
though the Cold War is over, Bush?s policy toward Cuba has become
even more threatening. Disappointed that Castro?s illness and
semi-retirement did not result in serious discontent and perhaps
even in regime overthrow, the neo-cons, according to the authors,
are hoping his death will at last give them that prize. More
likely, it will be their ultimate disappointment.
*Wayne S. Smith, senior fellow at the Center for International
Policy and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, former
chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (1979–1982)*
This is a most readable account of U.S.-Cuban relations since 1959,
i.e., of continuing U.S. efforts to dominate the island and of
Cuba’s to thwart those efforts. The authors make the very useful
point that U.S. policy cannot be explained simply as a device to
assure the support of the Cuban-American community–a community
which, in any event, is coming to have growing doubts about that
policy. Rather, it has to do with a mind-set stretching back into
early American history: that is, that in the rightful order of
things, Cuba ought to be controlled by the United States. In that
same context, the authors note that the neo-cons around Bush
'consider the continuation of the socialist project in Cuba to be
an affront to their plans for U.S. global hegemony.' And thus, even
though the Cold War is over, Bush’s policy toward Cuba has become
even more threatening. Disappointed that Castro’s illness and
semi-retirement did not result in serious discontent and perhaps
even in regime overthrow, the neo-cons, according to the authors,
are hoping his death will at last give them that prize.
More likely, it will be their ultimate disappointment.
*Wayne S. Smith, senior fellow at the Center for International
Policy and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, former
chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (1979–1982)*
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