The boundary between Cuba and United States has become more and more porous, as have those with Latin America and the Caribbean. Never in the past half-century has Cuba s leadership or its social and political fabric been so exposed to the influence of the outside world. In this book, an all-star cast of experts on Cuban Politics critically address the recent past and present in U.S.-Cuban relations in their full complexity and subtlety to develop a perspective on the evolution of the conflict and an inventory of forms of cooperation. This much needed approach provides a way to answer the...

The boundary between Cuba and United States has become more and more porous, as have those with Latin America and the Caribbean. Never in the past half-century has Cuba s leadership or its social and political fabric been so exposed to the influence of the outside world. In this book, an all-star cast of experts on Cuban Politics critically address the recent past and present in U.S.-Cuban relations in their full complexity and subtlety to develop a perspective on the evolution of the conflict and an inventory of forms of cooperation. This much needed approach provides a way to answer the...

The Cuban Economy in ?a New Era diagnoses the ills afflicting Cuba's economy and examines seven areas: macroeconomic policy, central planning, small and medium private enterprises, nonagricultural cooperatives, financing options for the new private sector, state enterprise management, and relations with international financial institutions.