Cuba and the United States: Will the Cold War in the Caribbean End?

Covering a wide range of issues involving Cuba and the United States—from an even wider range of perspectives—this book is the result of a Wilson Center conference convened to discuss the future of relations between the two countries. The contributors focus on the political dynamics in each country and consider how those dynamics might be affected by the rapidly shifting international configuration of forces.

The book captures the conflicting ideological paradigms and the deep and powerful emotional content of the discourse between Cuba and the U.S. Deliberately balancing Cuban and U.S. views, it casts into high relief the issues that complicate a rapprochement and, in so doing, establishes the bases necessary for a clearer understanding of the domestic and international factors involved in any scenario for resolving the Cuban-U.S. conflict.

• Introduction—the Editors.
• CUBA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
• Changes in Policy and Performance of the Cuban Economy (1986- 1989)—J.L. Rodríguez.
• Changes in the World Economy and Their Impact on Cuba—S. Roca.
• An Opening, Cuban Style—P. Rojas Lorenzo.
• Cuban Youth Today—J.R. Vidal Valdés.
• Cuban Culture in the 1980s—E. Pérez.
• A Cheap Glasnost: Writing and Journalism in Cuba Today—E.M. Santí.
• Cuban Security Interests in Perspective—R. Hernández.
• Where Have All the Comrades Gone?—J.M. del Aguila.
• THE U.S. AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
• Changes in the World Economy and Their Impact on the U.S.—R.J. Lieber.
• The U.S. and the New World Economic Order—P. Monreal González.
• The Role of Culture and the Media in Shaping U.S. Society—E. Yoder.
• The New Shape of U.S. Society—N. Palou.
• Rethinking Great-Power Confrontation—M. Brement.
• A New Security Agenda—C. Rico F.
• CUBA AND THE U.S. IN A CHANGING WORLD ORDER.
• Cuba-U.S. Relations and the Latin American Security Agenda—P. Monreal González.
• Cuba and the Latin American Security Agenda—C. Rico F.
• Changes in Eastern Europe and Cuba-U.S. Relations—J.L. Rodríguez.
• The International Context of Cuba-U.S. Relations—R. Betts.
• THE CUBAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
• The Cuban-American Community and U.S. Domestic Politics—E.A. Baloyra.
• Fallacies Regarding the Cuban Community in the U.S.—R. Hernández.