Foreign Policy Toward Cuba

Michele Zebich-Knos is professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University. Heather N. Nichol is director of the Center for Canadian Studies at the University of West Georgia.

Since Castro's revolution, the United States has tried to overthrow, isolate, or undermine Cuba, while Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean have preferred engagement. Michele Zebich-Knos and Heather Nicol have assembled a superb group of scholars to describe the domestic causes and evaluate the international effects of these different approaches. This is an important book that takes a new approach to an old problem and emerges with a curious conclusion: neither confrontation nor engagement has worked.

• Chapter 1 Isolate or Engage?: Divergent Approaches to Foreign Policy Toward CubaChapter 2 U.S. Policy toward Cuba: Trends and Transformation During the George W. Bush AdministrationChapter 3 The US-Cuba Standoff: A Double Con?Chapter 4 Canada-Cuba Relations: Old Wine in New Bottles?Chapter 5 From Reasonable Steadiness to "from Crisis to Crisis": Mexico-Cuba Relations in the Post-Cold War EraChapter 6 Cuba-CARICOM Relations Since 1972: Challenge and Change in Regional CooperationChapter 7 Carribean Community and Cuba Relations: Thirty Years RevisitedChapter 8 The Exile Ideology: Popular Culture and Boundary Maintenance in the Cuban EnclaveChapter 9 From Miami With Love: Transnational Political Activism in the Cuban Exile CommunityChapter 10 The Cuba-United States Conflict: Notes for Reflection of the War Against TerrorismChapter 11 Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba: U.S. Policy and the Cuban RealityChapter 12 "Venceremos!" Castro's Discourse on Cuba's Foreign PolicyChapter 13 A Clash of Perspectives?: Some Conclusions About the "Cuba Problem"