U.S.- Cuba Relations

A New World Order? A succinct overview of Cuba's history, especially since the 1959 Revolution. Recent impressions and information from the author's visits build an argument for a change in U.S. policy toward Cuba.

The United States has long dominated economic as well as political affairs in the Caribbean. Recently, however, the relations between the US and the Caribbean nations have been changing. In the early 1980s, the United States unilaterally announced the Caribbean Basin Initiative, which was a set of tariff concessions to the region designed to improve the overall economic situation. More recently, the Association of Caribbean States was created to bring together the islands and countries on the Caribbean rim in an attempt to reposition the region in light of the development of powerful trading blocs in the western hemisphere and Europe. This volume brings together essays that explore the historical, political, and economic dimensions of US-Caribbean relations. As such, it will be of considerable use to scholars and researchers of the Caribbean, economic development, and international relations.

A carefully researched, original examination of the central focus of American foreign policy since 1917 with specific attention to the USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Central and Southern Africa to show that U.S. government policy must change so as to help end poverty, instability, exploitation and aggression.

Nine Cubanologists analyze the causes, nature, and scope of the Cuban crisis.