Cuba-US relations
Subtitle: normalization and its challenges
By: edited by Margaret E. Crahan & Soraya M. Castro Marino
Contributors: Institut für Iberoamerika-Kunde
Publisher: Institute of Latin American Studies
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780998378503
Subjects: Foreign relations; Diplomatic relations
Description: "This book is unique.  It brings together experts from Cuba, the United States, and throughout the Americas to analyze Cuba-US relations since the December 17, 2014 announcements by President Raúl Castro and President Barak Obama that a process of normalization of relations would be inititated.  Since then Cuba and the US have engaged in bilateral negotiations, as well as technical talks on a range of issues including migration, environmental protection, telecommunications, iterdicting human and drug trafficking, and trade, commerce, and banking, among other issues.  This book evaluates the progress made to date and the challenges that currently face the negotiators.  These include the US embargo of Cuba and the ban on travel by US citizens to the island, which require congressional action to eliminate.  Cuba and the US both have monetary claims against each other that the authors analyze in terms of possible solutions.  Impediments arising from domestic conditions in both countries are also examined.  The book concludes with a study of the "spoilers" -- the factors and actors that could derail the process.  This work is aimed at all those interested not only in Cuba-US relations, but also in how diplomacy can achieve what hard pressure did not."--Back cover.
Notes: "A joint project of The Cuba program, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University & Centro de Investigaciones de Politica Internacional Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales"

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Margaret E. Crahan and Soraya M. Castro Mariño; title: Context; title: No Time to Lose : Navigating the Shoals of the New U.S.-Cuba Relationship / William M. LeoGrande; title: The New Era of Cuba-U.S. Relations : Breaking Down Axioms and Establishing Lasting Legacies? / Soraya M. Castro Mariño; title: Factors Determining Dialogue : Cuba in the U.S. Strategic Plan for the 21st Century / Ernesto Domínguez López; title: Latin American and Caribbean Regional Integration in the Context of Re-Establishing U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Relations / Claudia Marin Suárez; title: U.S. Cuban Immigration Policy and Its Unintended Consequences / Susan Eckstein; title: The Impact of the Cuban American Community on U.S. Policy Toward Cuba / Jesús Arboleya Cervera; title: Academics and Think Tanks : Have They Influenced Normalization of the U.S. Relations With Cuba? / Margaret E. Crahan; title: Issues; title: Chipping Away at the Embargo : President Obama and the U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Cuba / William M. LeoGrande; title: U.S.-Cuba Property Claims : The Way Forward / Alberto R. Coll; title: U.S.-Cuba Security Cooperation After D17 : Opportunities and Challenges / Geoff Thale; title: Developing Regional Capacities to Face Climate Change : Spaces for a Common Cuba-U.S. Agenda / Bárbara Garea Moreda & Ramón Pichs Madruga; title: Cuba's Chance to Get Back to the Future...in a Sustainable Way / Julia Sagebien & Eric Leenson; title: What is the U.S. Waiting For? Time for a New Migration Framework / Robert L. Bach; title: Cuba, the U.S., and the Concept of Sovereignty : Toward a Common Vocabulary / Ashley Miller & Ted Piccone; title: Moving Ahead; title: Political Polarization in the U.S. : Perspectives and Consequences for Cuba / Carlos Ciaño Zanetti; title: The New President and U.S.-Cuba Relations : Reactions and Actions by the the U.S. Congress / Mike Kopetski; title: Getting Along With the Colossus : Climbing on Board without Losing the Way / John H. Coatsworth; title: Spoiling the Spoilers : Evading the Legacy of Failed Attempts to Normalize U.S.-Cuba Relations / Philip Brenner & Colleen Scribner.