Author: L. Whitehead
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137123532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.
Debating Cuban Exceptionalism
Author: L. Whitehead
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137123532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137123532
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.
Debating Cuban Exceptionalism
Author: L. Whitehead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chapter 7 The Cuban-American Political Machine: Reflections on Its Origins and Perpetuation -- Chapter 8 Rethinking Civil Society and Religion in Cuba -- Chapter 9 The Knots of Memory: Culture, Reconciliation, and Democracy in Cuba -- Conclusions: Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chapter 7 The Cuban-American Political Machine: Reflections on Its Origins and Perpetuation -- Chapter 8 Rethinking Civil Society and Religion in Cuba -- Chapter 9 The Knots of Memory: Culture, Reconciliation, and Democracy in Cuba -- Conclusions: Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
Debating Cuban Exceptionalism
Author: L. Whitehead
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349738663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781349738663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.
Debating American Exceptionalism
Author: F. Hilfrich
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230392903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Spanish-American War focused not only on foreign policy, but also on the nation's very essence and purpose. At the heart of this debate was a consensus on American nationalism. This book explains why the belief in exceptionalism still serves as the basis of American nationalism and foreign policy even in spite of more recent military failures.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230392903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Spanish-American War focused not only on foreign policy, but also on the nation's very essence and purpose. At the heart of this debate was a consensus on American nationalism. This book explains why the belief in exceptionalism still serves as the basis of American nationalism and foreign policy even in spite of more recent military failures.
Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations
Author: Jorge I. Dominguez
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351984586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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 questions "what has been . . .?" and "what is . . .?" while also thinking seriously about "what if . . .?"
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351984586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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 questions "what has been . . .?" and "what is . . .?" while also thinking seriously about "what if . . .?"
Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited
Author: Bert Hoffmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The end of Cuban exceptionalism has been much announced since 1989, but a decade and a half later state socialism on the island is still enduring. Transition studies have been criticized for focusing on success stories. Exploring the deviant case of Cuba's "non-transition" from a comparative social science perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of this case and, more importantly, test the general assumptions underlying post-1989 expectations of regime change in Cuba. Theories of path dependence and cumulative causation are particularly helpful when attempting to link Cuban current political exceptionalism with a more long-term historic perspective. Moreover, they suggest that interpretations of Cuba as simply a "belated" case of "third wave" democratization may prove erroneous, even when the health of Fidel Castro finally falters.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The end of Cuban exceptionalism has been much announced since 1989, but a decade and a half later state socialism on the island is still enduring. Transition studies have been criticized for focusing on success stories. Exploring the deviant case of Cuba's "non-transition" from a comparative social science perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of this case and, more importantly, test the general assumptions underlying post-1989 expectations of regime change in Cuba. Theories of path dependence and cumulative causation are particularly helpful when attempting to link Cuban current political exceptionalism with a more long-term historic perspective. Moreover, they suggest that interpretations of Cuba as simply a "belated" case of "third wave" democratization may prove erroneous, even when the health of Fidel Castro finally falters.
Coveting Cuba
Author: Fernando Socorro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780355150797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The imaginings, the stories about Cuba, how it is perceived by non-Cubans, depict the island’s inhabitants as emotional and hot-tempered (think Ricky Ricardo saying “¡Mira que tiene cosa’esta mujer!”), fun-loving, politically volatile and revolutionary, overly-romantic and sexually insatiable. The island itself is promoted and loved by non-Cubans because it is considered exceptional, unique and special, because of its people, its post-1959 revolutionary history, and its natural beauty. In this work, written in my own personal, Spanglish voice mixed with my strict academic voice, I first propose a theory of exceptionalism, a simple framework of contextual historical analysis and deep-reading of media and academic material to understand how Cuba, orany nation, is perceived by outside nations and groups, and how such perceptions shape local events and histories. I then provide evidence of how Cuba is consistently depicted as exceptional,unique and special, in the media and in academic work produced from the mid-1800s to the recent present. Then two chapters retell Cuban history through an exceptionalist lens, from pre-Columbian times to 1868; this is the period when Cuba enters the Western imagination and its stature as exceptional develops and takes hold. It is my belief that by understanding why and how Cuba, or any other nation, is positioned as exceptional, unique and special, or not, we can create richer academic work that understands the traditional, two-dimensional narratives about Cuba and Cubans, builds on that understanding to produce more varied, complex, inclusive erudition. Such work can help us understand the great emotional pull that a place like Cuba has on its inhabitants and on non-Cubans as well.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780355150797
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The imaginings, the stories about Cuba, how it is perceived by non-Cubans, depict the island’s inhabitants as emotional and hot-tempered (think Ricky Ricardo saying “¡Mira que tiene cosa’esta mujer!”), fun-loving, politically volatile and revolutionary, overly-romantic and sexually insatiable. The island itself is promoted and loved by non-Cubans because it is considered exceptional, unique and special, because of its people, its post-1959 revolutionary history, and its natural beauty. In this work, written in my own personal, Spanglish voice mixed with my strict academic voice, I first propose a theory of exceptionalism, a simple framework of contextual historical analysis and deep-reading of media and academic material to understand how Cuba, orany nation, is perceived by outside nations and groups, and how such perceptions shape local events and histories. I then provide evidence of how Cuba is consistently depicted as exceptional,unique and special, in the media and in academic work produced from the mid-1800s to the recent present. Then two chapters retell Cuban history through an exceptionalist lens, from pre-Columbian times to 1868; this is the period when Cuba enters the Western imagination and its stature as exceptional develops and takes hold. It is my belief that by understanding why and how Cuba, or any other nation, is positioned as exceptional, unique and special, or not, we can create richer academic work that understands the traditional, two-dimensional narratives about Cuba and Cubans, builds on that understanding to produce more varied, complex, inclusive erudition. Such work can help us understand the great emotional pull that a place like Cuba has on its inhabitants and on non-Cubans as well.
Cuban Exceptionalism
Author: Mark Q. Sawyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptionalism
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exceptionalism
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Cuban Privilege
Author: Susan Eva Eckstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants were able to enter the country without authorization, and have access to welfare benefits and citizenship status. This book is the first to reveal the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans. Initially privileged to undermine the Castro-led revolution in the throes of the Cold War, one US President after another extended new entitlements, even in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on unseen archives, interviews, and survey data, Cuban Privilege highlights how Washington, in the process of privileging Cubans, transformed them from agents of US Cold War foreign policy into a politically powerful force influencing national policy. Comparing the exclusionary treatment of neighboring Haitians, the book discloses the racial and political biases embedded within US immigration policy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108905064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
For over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal rights, Cuban immigrants were able to enter the country without authorization, and have access to welfare benefits and citizenship status. This book is the first to reveal the full range of entitlements granted to Cubans. Initially privileged to undermine the Castro-led revolution in the throes of the Cold War, one US President after another extended new entitlements, even in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on unseen archives, interviews, and survey data, Cuban Privilege highlights how Washington, in the process of privileging Cubans, transformed them from agents of US Cold War foreign policy into a politically powerful force influencing national policy. Comparing the exclusionary treatment of neighboring Haitians, the book discloses the racial and political biases embedded within US immigration policy.
Cuba in Revolution
Author: Antoni Kapcia
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861894481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point, which is what Antoni Kapcia provides with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Cuba In Revolution takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analyzing social change, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution, and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes into Castro’s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defense and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the United States from the beginning of his reign. The book also considers the evolution of the revolution’s international profile and Cuba’s foreign relations over the years, investigating issues and events such as the Bay of Pigs crisis, Cuban relations with Communist nations like Russia and China, and the flight of asylum-seeking Cubans to Florida over the decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 catalyzed a severe economic and political crisis in Cuba, but Cuba was surprisingly resilient in the face of the catastrophe, Kapcia notes, and he examines the strategies adopted by Cuba over the last two decades in order to survive America’s longstanding trade embargo. A fascinating and much-needed examination of a country that has served as an important political symbol and diplomatic enigma for the twentieth century, Cuba In Revolution is a critical primer for all those interested in Cuba’s past—or concerned with its future.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1861894481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention toward the tiny but prominent island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid all of the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point, which is what Antoni Kapcia provides with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959. Cuba In Revolution takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analyzing social change, its benefits and disadvantages, popular participation in the revolution, and the development of its ideology. Kapcia probes into Castro’s rapid rise to national leader, exploring his politics of defense and dissent as well as his contentious relationship with the United States from the beginning of his reign. The book also considers the evolution of the revolution’s international profile and Cuba’s foreign relations over the years, investigating issues and events such as the Bay of Pigs crisis, Cuban relations with Communist nations like Russia and China, and the flight of asylum-seeking Cubans to Florida over the decades. The collapse of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 catalyzed a severe economic and political crisis in Cuba, but Cuba was surprisingly resilient in the face of the catastrophe, Kapcia notes, and he examines the strategies adopted by Cuba over the last two decades in order to survive America’s longstanding trade embargo. A fascinating and much-needed examination of a country that has served as an important political symbol and diplomatic enigma for the twentieth century, Cuba In Revolution is a critical primer for all those interested in Cuba’s past—or concerned with its future.