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Author : Fidel Castro
Publisher : Ocean Press (AU)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X006036149
English texts of Castro's speeches given between Nov. 25, 1994 and April 30, 1996, which first appeared in the Cuban weekly Granma International.
Author : Ron Ridenour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 0962497576
Author : Philip Brenner,John M. Kirk,William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538136836
Cuba has undergone dramatic changes since the collapse of European communism. The loss of economic aid and preferential trade with the Soviet Union and other Eastern bloc countries forced the Cuban government to search out new ways of organizing the domestic economy and new commercial relations in an international system dominated by market economies. The resulting economic reforms have reverberated through Cuban society and politics, recreating social inequalities unknown since the 1950s and confronting the political system with unprecedented new challenges. The resulting ferment is increasingly evident in Cuban cultural expression, and the responses to adversity and scarcity have reshaped Cuban social relations. Cuba today faces new challenges with the transition to a new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and renewed hostility from the Trump administration. This timely book provides a balanced and deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba today. This concise overview focuses on Cuba since Raúl Castro stepped down as president, bringing together leading scholars to analyze politics, economics, foreign policy, and society in present-day Cuba. Ideally suited for students and all those seeking to understand this still contentious and controversial island, the book includes a substantive introduction setting the historical context, as well as a chronology and primary source documents.
Author : Carlos M. Gutierrez,Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cuba
ISBN : OCLC:441757428
Author : Ron Ridenour,Theodore H. MacDonald
Publisher : IMG Publications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0902869957
Ron Ridenour, the celebrated writer on Cuban and Central American politics, has published a new expanded edition of his book, Cuba: Beyond the Crossroads. Tje book has been updated to cover Fidel Castro's withdrawal from power during his long illness in 2007. His other books include Cuba: A "Yankee" Reports, Backfire: The CIA's Biggest Burn, Cuba at the Crossroads and Yankee Sandinistas. A committed revolutionary, anti-war activist, and supporter of the Cuban revolution, Ridenour's book gathers report and accounts of his extended journey in Cuba in 2006, together with up-to-date analysis of Cuba today. It has already generated widespead controversy. The selections below give a flavour of the book. "Regardless of whether of not Cuba has achieved socialism - it is a long process, after all - the Cuban people and its government are more than worthy of our love and support. They have done no harm to the world and they have helped many millions of people in many lands. They have held out against "the enemy of humanity" to quote from the Sandinista anthem. In so doing, they have held out hope for billions of us." "The main hindrance to worker control, to real socialism, is the world domination by capitalism and imperialism. The fact that the United States lays but 150 kilometers away is the greatest hindrance. I believe, however, that if the Cuban leadership had had more trust in the working class back in the mid-60s, once US military attacks were turned back and the internal counter-revolution defeated, it would have gradually turned over to the workers significant say in productive relations and in making local and national policies."
Author : Carrie Gibson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230766181
In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the factories and mills built as a result of the work of slaves thousands of miles away; the idea of true equality as espoused in Saint Domingue in the 1790s; the slow progress to independence; and even globalization and migration, with the ships passing to and fro taking people and goods in all possible directions, hundreds of years before the term 'globalization' was coined. From Cuba to Haiti, from Dominica to Martinique, from Jamaica to Trinidad, the story of the Caribbean is not simply the story of slaves and masters - but of fortune-seekers and pirates, scientists and servants, travellers and tourists. It is not only a story of imperial expansion - European and American - but of global connections, and also of life as it is lived in the islands, both in the past and today.
Author : Daniel Bruno Sanz
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1439236992
Author : Alexandra Diaz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534414563
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Author : Roberto Regalado Álvarez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069356262
Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today and the significance of the recent election of leftist governments in several countries. He examines the political crises and the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neo-liberalism - from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil - and considers alternative options for development.
Author : Daniel Bruno Sanz
Publisher : Booksurge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 1439238073
Author : Jorge F. Pérez-López
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813013100
"Extremely useful to scholars and readers interested in Latin America, socialist countries in transition, U.S. foreign policy, comparative political and economic systems, [and] revolutionary change. . . . Will be an excellent textbook in courses related to those subjects."--Carmelo Mesa-Lago, University of Pittsburgh By October 1991, when Cuba's Fourth Communist Party Congress met, international communism had crumbled, and Cuba, mired in a deep recession, faced serious internal pressures and a hostile external economic environment. These essays reflect the political and economic concerns highlighted at the congress. Despite their interdisciplinary approaches and differences in point of view, the authors agree that significant change in Cuba is imminent and that the country stands at the intersection of several roads, each associated with alternative models of political and economic organization. Where appropriate, they evaluate the strategies that the Cuban leadership is currently pursuing. Contents Introduction: Cuban Politics and Economics in the 1990s, by Jorge F. Pérez-López Leadership Strategies and Mass Support: Cuban Politics before and after the 1991 Communist Party Congress, by Jorge I. Domínguez The Party, the Fourth Congress, and the Process of Counterreform, by Juan M. del Aguila Continuity and Change in Cuba's International Relations, by Damián J. Fernández Cuba's Economic Strategy and Alternative Futures, by Archibald R. M. Ritter Reflections on Economic Policy: Cuba's Food Program, by Sergio G. Roca Cuba's Labor Adjustment Policies during the Special Period, by Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge F. Pérez-López Tourism in Cuba: A Development Strategy for the 1990s? by María Dolores Espino Cuban Biotechnology: A First World Approach to Development, by Julie M. Feinsilver Islands of Capitalism in an Ocean of Socialism: Joint Ventures in Cuba's Development Strategy, by Jorge F. Pérez-López Reforming Cuba's Economic System from Within, by Andrew Zimbalist Economic Reform in Cuba: Lessons from Eastern Europe, by Jorge F. Pérez-López
Author : Gesine Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110492330
The study examines cultural effects of various colonial systems of government in the Spanish- and French-speaking Caribbean in a little investigated period of transition: from the French Revolution to the abolition of slavery in Cuba (1789–1886). The comparison of cultural transfer processes by means of literary production from and about the Caribbean, embedded in a broader context of the circulation of culture and knowledge deciphers the different transculturations of European discourses in the colonies as well as the repercussions of these transculturations on the motherland’s ideas of the colonial other: The loss of a culturally binding centre in the case of the Spanish colonies – in contrast to France’s strong presence and binding force – is accompanied by a multirelationality which increasingly shapes hispanophone Caribbean literature and promotes the pursuit for political independence.The book provides necessary revision to the idea that the 19th-century Caribbean can only be understood as an outpost of the European metropolises. Examining the kaleidoscope of the colonial Caribbean opens new insights into the early processes of cultural globalisation and questions our established concept of a genuine western modernity. Updated and expanded translation of Die koloniale Karibik. Transferprozesse in hispanophonen und frankophonen Literaturen, De Gruyter (mimesis 53), 2012
Author : Francis Fukuyama,Professor of International Political Economy Francis Fukuyama
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300113990
Presents a critique of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy, arguing that it stemmed from misconceptions about the realities of the situation in Iraq and a squandering of the goodwill of American allies following September 11th.
Author : William R. Kelly
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231539227
Over the past forty years, the criminal justice system in the United States has engaged in a very expensive policy failure, attempting to punish its way to public safety, with dismal results. So-called "tough on crime" policies have not only failed to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, and victimization but also created an incredibly inefficient system that routinely fails the public, taxpayers, crime victims, criminal offenders, their families, and their communities. Strategies that focus on behavior change are much more productive and cost effective for reducing crime than punishment, and in this book, William R. Kelly discusses the policy, process, and funding innovations and priorities that the United States needs to effectively reduce crime, recidivism, victimization, and cost. He recommends proactive, evidence-based interventions to address criminogenic behavior; collaborative decision making from a variety of professions and disciplines; and a focus on innovative alternatives to incarceration, such as problem-solving courts and probation. Students, professionals, and policy makers alike will find in this comprehensive text a bracing discussion of how our criminal justice system became broken and the best strategies by which to fix it.
Author : Stijn De Cauwer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231546836
We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status quo, can the rhetoric of crisis be used to foment urgency around issues like climate change and financialization, or does framing a situation as a “crisis” play into the hands of the existing political order, which then seeks to tighten the leash by creating a state of emergency? Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years, the protest movements that have risen up in response, and the use of the term in political discourse. Tariq Ali, Rosi Braidotti, Wendy Brown, Maurizio Lazzarato, Angela McRobbie, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Saskia Sassen, and Joseph Vogl offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly discussing the alternatives that new social movements have offered, alongside an exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Roberto Esposito on theories of community. Sparring over crucial developments in these past years of catastrophe and the calamity of everyday life under capitalism, they shed light on how crises and the discourse of crisis can both obscure and reveal fundamental aspects of modern societies.