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Contributors Mervyn J. Bain (MA Hons, Glasgow, UK; MPhil, Glasgow; PhD, Glasgow) is senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen (UK). His primary research interest is the relationship between Havana and Moscow, and he has published articles on Cuba’s relationship with the former Soviet Union in a variety of journals. He also has a chapter, “Gorbachev’s Legacy for Russian/Cuban Relations Post 1991,” in Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Political Impact of the “Special Period” edited by John Kirk and Michael Erisman. He is the author of two books: Soviet-Cuban Relations, 1985 to 1991: Changing Perceptions in Moscow and Havana and Russian-Cuban Relations since 1992: Continuing Camaraderie in a Post-Soviet World. Philip Brenner (BA, Columbia; PhD, Johns Hopkins University) is former director of the U.S. Foreign Policy Program at the School of International Service. He specializes in the U.S. foreign policy process with an emphasis on Congress, and in U.S. policy toward Latin America. He has published widely on U.S.-Cuban relations, on U.S. policy toward Central America, and on the Cuban Missile Crisis. His most recent book is A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution, coedited with Marguerite Rose Jiménez, John Kirk, and William LeoGrande. Professor Brenner is a member of the board of directors of the Center for International Policy, and of the advisory boards of the National Security Archive and the Center for Democracy in the Americas, has been a staff member in Congress , and has served on the editorial boards of several journals. Soraya M. Castro Mariño (Doctor of Laws, Havana) is full professor and researcher at the Center for the Study of International Politics, the Raúl Roa García Advanced Institute of International Relations (Havana). Her research interests include U.S.-Cuban relations, U.S. foreign policy, and the foreign policymaking process in the United States. She is the coeditor, with Víctor López Villafañe, of Estados Unidos y América Latina: los nuevos desaf íos: ¿Unión o desunión?; and coauthor of the report Retreat from Reason: U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations and the Bush Administration. In addition, she has contributed to A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution; Los Estados Unidos a la luz del siglo XXI; Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy; and Foreign Policy toward Cuba: Isolation or Engagement? She is also the main author of EEUU: dinámica interna y política exterior and coauthor of Del TLC al Mercosur: integración y diversidades en América Latina, as well as having written numerous chapters in edited collections and articles in journals. 402 · Contributors Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University. He is the author or coauthor of various books, among them Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective; The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict (2nd ed.); Cuba hoy: analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro; The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century; Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (3rd. ed.); Democratic Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean; and To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba’s Foreign Policy. He is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. Damián Fernández (PhD, University of Miami) is a specialist on Latin American politics. He is the former director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University and served as lead investigator of a National Science Foundation–funded research initiative focusing on political culture, social capital and community among Latinos in the United States. His most recent book, Cuba and the Politics of Passion, has been adopted for undergraduate and graduate courses at Princeton, the University of Michigan, Tulane, Georgetown, and Amherst, among other universities. Having served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Purchase College, State University of New York, Dr. Fernández is currently head of school at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City. Rafael M. Hernández is a political scientist, writer, and editor of Temas, a Cuban quarterly in the field of social sciences and the humanities, as well as a published poet, essayist, and playwright. He has been professor and researcher at the University of Havana and the High Institute of International Relations, director of U.S. studies at the Centro de Estudios sobre América (a think tank of the...

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