H. Michael Erisman, professor of political science at Indiana State University, is the author of six books, including "Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World" (UPF, 2000). John M. Kirk, professor of Spanish at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is the author or coauthor of numerous books with the University Press of Florida, most recently "Culture and the Cuban Revolution: Conversations in Havana" (UPF, 2001),""