Economic Normalization With Cuba

Author : Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Barbara Kotschwar
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881326826

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Economic Normalization with Cuba by Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Barbara Kotschwar Pdf

Description For more than 50 years the United States has attempted to destabilize and isolate the Castro regime in Cuba with the use of trade and financial sanctions, a policy that has fallen short of its objective. In this Policy Analysis, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Barbara Kotschwar suggest that the sands of time may accomplish what economic pressure did not. Raúl Castro, president of Cuba since 2008, plans to step down at the end of 2018, implying a new regime in five years. Various forces are starting to emerge favoring economic normalization if Cuba appears ready to change its policies as well as its leadership. The authors caution, however, that a unilateral dismantling of US sanctions without insuring that proper institutions are in place in Cuba could squander a golden opportunity for US companies. They argue that a new US-Cuba relationship must entail a lifting of Cuba's barriers to trade and investment, liberalization of its economy, and the adoption of democratic institutions. They offer a roadmap for a future US-Cuba rapprochement.

Author : Eric Hershberg,William M. LeoGrande
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319295954

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A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations by Eric Hershberg,William M. LeoGrande Pdf

This book explores the diverse consequences of Presidents Obama and Castro brokering a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more than half a century of estrangement. Economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics are analyzed in accessible fashion by leading experts from Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. What opportunities arise through the opening of diplomatic relations, and what issues may be obstacles to normalization? What are the implications for the Cuban economy, for its political system, and for ties with members of the Cuban diaspora? What are the implications for US relations elsewhere in Latin America? This up-to-date account addresses these and other questions about this new direction in US-Cuban relations.

Author : John M. Kirk,Archibald R.M. Ritter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349242504

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Cuba in the International System by John M. Kirk,Archibald R.M. Ritter Pdf

This book examines the evolution of Cuba's foreign relations since the demise of the USSR. It is divided into three sections: the first examines the nature of economic and political change that has taken place in Cuba in the last three years; the second analyzes the evolution of Cuban international relations, which have flourished in recent years; the final section examines the nature of the impasse in bilateral relations with the USA and offers some suggestions to resolve the difficulties.

Author : Michael J. Kelly,Erika Moreno,Richard C. Witmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190687373

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The Cuba-U.S. Bilateral Relationship by Michael J. Kelly,Erika Moreno,Richard C. Witmer Pdf

At the end of President Barack Obama's second term, it seemed that the U.S. and Cuba might be on track to normalize relations after five decades of cold war animus. These hopes appeared dashed, however, by the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, which brought to power a candidate that campaigned on undoing Obama's signature policies, including the rapprochement with Cuba. Several years into the Trump administration there are still several pathways that these two neighboring countries could take to either continue the rapprochement, extend the status quo, or drift further apart. Although it is not entirely clear which direction the bilateral relationship will take, given the varied and divergent political pressures that drive each of the two nations, it is clear that several key opportunities and challenges await them. Drawing insight from the political, economic, and legal spheres, this book examines possible pathways for the two cold war adversaries. Key among the issues that demand attention are unresolved property claims dating back to the 1959 revolution, establishing regularized bilateral economic relationships in multiple sectors of the economy, as well as addressing a variety of legal and political constraints in both Cuba and the United States. This volume tackles these issues by drawing on the expertise of scholars in three distinct fields--political science, economics, and law--while positing viable policy choices and the opportunities and challenges found therein.

Author : Dianne E. Rennack,Mark P. Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Economic sanctions, American
ISBN : OCLC:1097414909

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Cuba Sanctions by Dianne E. Rennack,Mark P. Sullivan Pdf

Author : William M. LeoGrande,Peter Kornbluh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626611

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Back Channel to Cuba by William M. LeoGrande,Peter Kornbluh Pdf

History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. Now in paperback and updated to tell the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations, this powerful book is essential to understanding ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, Back Channel to Cuba chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh here present a remarkably new and relevant account, describing how, despite the intense political clamor surrounding efforts to improve relations with Havana, negotiations have been conducted by every presidential administration since Eisenhower's through secret, back-channel diplomacy. From John F. Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Fidel Castro after the missile crisis, to Henry Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Barack Obama's promise of a new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh uncovered hundreds of formerly secret U.S. documents and conducted interviews with dozens of negotiators, intermediaries, and policy makers, including Fidel Castro and Jimmy Carter. They reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, that provides the historical foundation for the dramatic breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba ties.

Author : Scott Morgenstern,Jorge Perez-Lopez,Jerome Branche
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986416

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Paths for Cuba by Scott Morgenstern,Jorge Perez-Lopez,Jerome Branche Pdf

The Cuban model of communism has been an inspiration—from both a positive and negative perspective—for social movements, political leaders, and cultural expressionists around the world. With changes in leadership, the pace of change has accelerated following decades of economic struggles. The death of Fidel Castro and the reduced role of Raúl Castro seem likely to create further changes, though what these changes look like is still unknown. For now, Cuba is opening in important ways. Cubans can establish businesses, travel abroad, access the internet, and make private purchases. Paths for Cuba examines Cuba’s internal reforms and external influences within a comparative framework. The collection includes an interdisciplinary group of scholars from around the world to explore reforms away from communism.

Author : Julia E Sweig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199740819

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Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know by Julia E Sweig Pdf

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America's leading experts on Cuba and Latin America, presents a concise and remarkably accessible portrait of the small island nation's unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years. Yet it is authoritative as well. Following a scene-setting introduction that describes the dynamics unleashed since summer 2006 when Fidel Castro transferred provisional power to his brother Raul, the book looks backward toward Cuba's history since the Spanish American War before shifting to more recent times. Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the post-Cold War era, and-finally-the looming post-Fidel era. Informative, pithy, and lucidly written, it will serve as the best compact reference on Cuba's internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.

Author : Jorge I. Dominguez,Rafael M. Hernández,Lorena G. Barberia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351984577

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Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations by Jorge I. Dominguez,Rafael M. Hernández,Lorena G. Barberia Pdf

The boundary between Cuba and the 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 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 questions "what has been . . .?" and "what is . . .?" while also thinking seriously about "what if . . .?" To illustrate the most significant areas of U.S.-Cuban relations in the contemporary era, this newly updated edition of Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations adds six more themes to the study of this complex relation: political, security, economic, and cultural/academic issues; the triangular relations of the United States, Cuba, and Europe; and the politics of Cuban migration/emigration. Each topic is represented by perspectives from both Cuban and non-Cuban scholars, leading to a resource rich in insight and a model of transnational dialogue. The future course of U.S.-Cuban relations will likely be more complex than in the past, not only because of the matrix of factors involved but also because of the number of actors. Such a multiplicity of domestic, regional, and global factors is unique; it includes the rise to power of new administrations in both countries since 2008. Raúl Castro became president of Cuba in February 2008 and Barack Obama was inaugurated president of the United States in January 2009. And it will feature the inauguration of a new president of the United States in January 2017 and a new president of Cuba, likely in February 2018.

Author : Carmelo Mesa-Lago
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822974567

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Cuba After the Cold War by Carmelo Mesa-Lago Pdf

Ten original essays by an international team of scholars specializing in Cuba, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Latin America focus on the fall of communism in Europe and the transition to a market economy. Major themes of this study are the impact of the USSR's collapse on Cuba, how the historic events in Europe have affected the Central and South American Left, their implications to Cuba, Cuba's policies for confronting the crisis, and potential scenarios for the political and economic transformation of Cuba.

Author : Rex A. Hudson
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0844410454

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Cuba by Rex A. Hudson Pdf

"Describes and analyzes the economic, national security, political, and social systems and institutions of Cuba."--Amazon.com viewed Jan. 4, 2021.

Author : Jorge Perez-Lopez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0822970368

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Cuban Studies 23 by Jorge Perez-Lopez Pdf

Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Author : C. Fred Bergsten
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509547364

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The United States vs. China by C. Fred Bergsten Pdf

After leading the world economy for a century, the United States faces the first real challenge to its supremacy in the rise of China. Is economic (or broader) conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s two superpowers? Will their clash produce a new economic leadership vacuum akin to the 1930s, when Great Britain was unable to play its traditional leadership role and a rising United States was unwilling to step in to save the global order? In this sweeping and authoritative analysis of the competition for global economic leadership between China and the United States, C. Fred Bergsten warns of the disastrous consequences of hostile confrontation between these two superpowers. He paints a frightening picture of a world economy adopting Chinese characteristics, in which the United States, after Trump abdicated much of its role, engages in a self-defeating attempt to “decouple” from its rival. Drawing on more than 50 years of active participation as a policymaker and close observation as a scholar, Bergsten calls on China to exercise constructive global leadership in its own self-interest and on the United States to reject a policy of containment, avoid a new Cold War, and instead pursue “conditional competitive cooperation” to work with its allies, and especially China, to lead, rather than destroy, the world economy.

Author : Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs,Jeffrey J. Schott
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780881327144

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Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment by Cathleen Cimino-Isaacs,Jeffrey J. Schott Pdf

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The essays in this Policy Analysis provide estimates of the TPP's benefits and costs and analyze more than 20 issues in the agreement, including environmental and labor standards, tariff schedules, investment and competition policy, intellectual property, ecommerce, services and financial services, government procurement, dispute settlement, and agriculture. Through extensive analysis of the TPP text, PIIE scholars present an indispensable and detailed "reader's guide" that also sheds light on the agreement's merits and shortcomings. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. And more often than not, the new billionaires are using their newfound acumen to navigate the globalized economy, without necessarily relying on political connections, inheritance, or privileged access to resources. This story of emerging-market billionaires and the global businesses they create dramatically illuminates the process of industrialization in the modern world economy.

Author : Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez,Georgina Chami,Annita Montoute,Debbie A. Mohammed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030203665

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Changing Cuba-U.S. Relations by Jacqueline Laguardia Martinez,Georgina Chami,Annita Montoute,Debbie A. Mohammed Pdf

This book analyses the evolving engagement of the United States and Cuba, along with the impact of this relationship on Cuba-CARICOM relations and the Caribbean. Through a Caribbean perspective, the chapters discuss the implications of the U.S.-Cuba relationship economically, institutionally and developmentally. Based on the findings of their research, the authors provide policy recommendations to CARICOM on potential areas for enhancing relations between CARICOM and Cuba, drawing on fieldwork and interviews with policymakers, academics, non-governmental organizations, and regional experts.