In this Book
- Fifty Years of Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University Press of Florida
- Series: Contemporary Cuba
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- Part I. Cuba in the Global Context
- 6. The European Union and Cuba
- pp. 117-134
- Part II. Cuba and the United States, 1959–2009
- 9. The Kennedy-Castro Years
- pp. 184-198
- 11. The Nixon-Ford-Castro Years
- pp. 223-236
- 15. The George W. Bush–Castro Years
- pp. 303-332
- Part III. Visions of the Future
- 19. The Time for Cuba Is Coming
- pp. 374-382
- Bibliography
- pp. 383-400
- List of Contributors
- pp. 401-408