Fifty years of revolution [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the world / / edited by Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Ronald W. Pruessen

• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 972.9106/4
• Soggetto topico: International relations
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba History Revolution, 1959; Cuba Foreign relations; Cuba Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Cuba
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CastroSoraya PruessenRonald W
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cuba in the global context -- U.S. policy toward Latin America since 1959: How exceptional is Cuba? / Lars Schoultz -- An island on the doorstep of the world: Cuba's place in U.S. global visions / Ronald W. Pruessen -- Flicking the eagle's feathers?: Cuba, revolution, and the international system / Candace Sobers -- Havana and Moscow: the Washington factor / Mervyn J. Bain -- Does the Canada-Cuba relationship offer any lessons for Washington? / Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk -- The European Union and Cuba / Joaquín Roy -- 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 -- The Eisenhower-Castro years: the United States, Cuba, and the challenges of change / Francisca López Civeira -- The Kennedy-Castro years / David A. Welch -- Superpower containment of Cuba: the Johnson-Nixon-Castro years / William O. Walker III -- The Nixon-Ford-Castro years / Rosa López-Oceguera -- The Carter-Castro years: a unique opportunity / Robert A. Pastor -- The Reagan-Castro years: the "new right" and its anti-Cuban obsession / Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto -- The George H. W. Bush-Clinton-Castro years: from the cold war to the colder war (1989-2001) / Jorge I. Domínguez -- The George W. Bush-Castro years / Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Philip Brenner -- The new Cuban American politics: passion, affection, dollars, and the emergence of Mihavana / Damián Fernández -- Visions of the future -- Transitology, realpolitik and todo lo contrario: old and new futures in U.S.-Cuban relations / Rafael M. Hernández -- U.S.-Cuban relations: prospects for cooperative coexistence / William M. Leogrande and Marguerite Rose Jimenez -- The time for Cuba is coming / Víctor López Villafañe.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the years since the Cuban Revolution in 1959, 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 Who's Who gallery of leading scholars. The volume adopts a uniquely nonpartisan attitude, a departure from this topic's generally divisive nature. Emerging from a series of meetings, confere
• Altri titoli varianti: 50 years of revolution : perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the world
• Titolo autorizzato: Fifty years of revolution
• ISBN: 0-8130-4385-9; 0-8130-4361-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462182303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Cuba.