Cuban Foreign Policy - Transformation Under Raul Castro

Tracing the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro, leading scholars provide a systematic overview of Cuba's relations with the United States, Latin America, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This text will be invaluable for all readers interested in contemporary Cuba.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables

1. Historical Introduction to Foreign Policy under Raúl Castro
John M. Kirk

Part I: Key Issue Areas
2. The Defense Contribution to Foreign Policy: Crucial in the Past, Crucial Today
Hal Klepak

3. Cuba's International Economic Relations: A Macroperspective on Performance and Challenges
H. Michael Erisman

4. The Evolution of Cuban Medical Internationalism
John M. Kirk

Part II: Cuba's Regional Relations

5. Cuba and Latin America and the Caribbean
Andrés Serbin

6. Cuba and Africa: Recasting Old Relations in New but Familiar Ways
Isaac Saney

7. Cuba and Asia and Oceania
Pedro Monzón and Eduardo Regalado Florido

8. Cuba and the European Union
Susanne Gratius

9. Cuba, Oceania, and a "Canberra Spring"
Tim Anderson

Part III: Cuba's Key Bilateral Relations

10. The United States and Cuba
William LeoGrande

11. Canada and Cuba
John M. Kirk and Raúl Rodríguez

12. Spain and Cuba
Joaquín Roy

13. Venezuela and Cuba
Carlos A. Romero

14. Brazil and Cuba
Regiane Nitsch Bressan

15. Russia and Cuba
Mervyn Bain

16. China and Cuba
Andrian H. Hearn and Rafael Hernández

Part IV: Retrospective and Prospective Views

17. Conclusion
H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk

Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk

Summary

Tracing the sweeping changes in Cuban foreign policy under Raúl Castro, leading scholars provide a systematic overview of Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. This text will be invaluable for all readers interested in contemporary Cuban politics.

Product details

• Authors: H. Michael (EDT)/ Kirk Erisman, H. Michael Kirk Erisman
• Assisted by: H Michael Erisman (Editor), H. Michael Erisman (Editor), John M Kirk (Editor), John M. Kirk (Editor), Kirk John M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781442270923
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7092-3
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Cuba, HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, International Relations, Caribbean islands, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America