Fifty years of revolution
Subtitle: perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the world
By: edited by Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Ronald W. Pruessen
Series: Contemporary Cuba; Contemporary Cuba
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780813040233
Subjects: Foreign relations; History
Other titles: 50 years of revolution :
Description: In the years since the Cuban Revolution, 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 group of leading scholars. This unique volume adopts a nonpartisan attitude, a departure from this topic's generally divisive nature.

Emerging from a series of meetings, conference panels, and lectures, this 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, the authors of these essays update, summarize, and explain one of the prickliest ongoing political issues in the Western Hemisphere today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cuba in the global context; title: U.S. policy toward Latin America since 1959: How exceptional is Cuba? / Lars Schoultz; title: An island on the doorstep of the world: Cuba's place in U.S. global visions / Ronald W. Pruessen; title: Flicking the eagle's feathers?: Cuba, revolution, and the international system / Candace Sobers; title: Havana and Moscow: the Washington factor / Mervyn J. Bain; title: Does the Canada-Cuba relationship offer any lessons for Washington? / Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk; title: The European Union and Cuba / Joaquín Roy; title: Cuba and the United States, 1959-2009 / The personal is political: animus and malice in the U.S. policy toward Cuba, 1959-2009 / Louis A. Perez Jr; title: The Eisenhower-Castro years: the United States, Cuba, and the challenges of change / Francisca López Civeira; title: The Kennedy-Castro years / David A. Welch; title: Superpower containment of Cuba: the Johnson-Nixon-Castro years / William O. Walker III; title: The Nixon-Ford-Castro years / Rosa López-Oceguera; title: The Carter-Castro years: a unique opportunity / Robert A. Pastor; title: The Reagan-Castro years: the "new right" and its anti-Cuban obsession / Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto; title: The George H. W. Bush-Clinton-Castro years: from the cold war to the colder war (1989-2001) / Jorge I. Domínguez; title: The George W. Bush-Castro years / Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Philip Brenner; title: The new Cuban American politics: passion, affection, dollars, and the emergence of Mihavana / Damián Fernández; title: Visions of the future; title: Transitology, realpolitik and todo lo contrario: old and new futures in U.S.-Cuban relations / Rafael M. Hernández; title: U.S.-Cuban relations: prospects for cooperative coexistence / William M. Leogrande and Marguerite Rose Jimenez; title: The time for Cuba is coming / Víctor López Villafañe.