Hideaki Kami is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Kanagawa University, Japan. He is a recipient of the Saito Makoto Prize and the Fulbright Award for Doctoral Studies, and has conducted archival research in the United States, Cuba, and elsewhere.

'Kami has fashioned a compelling assessment of Cuban immigration as a factor of decisive policy importance, and thereupon to plumb deeply into the complexities of Cuba-US relations between the 1960s and the 1990s. He answers some old questions and, just as important, he has raised new ones.' Louis A. Pérez, The American Historical Review

• List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Between revolution and counterrevolution; 2. The legacy of violence; 3. A time for dialogue?; 4. The crisis of 1980; 5. Acting as a 'superhero'?; 6. The two contrary currents; 7. Making foreign policy domestic?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Hideaki Kami is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Kanagawa University, Japan. He is a recipient of the Saito Makoto Prize and the Fulbright Award for Doctoral Studies, and has conducted archival research in the United States, Cuba, and elsewhere.

'Kami has fashioned a compelling assessment of Cuban immigration as a factor of decisive policy importance, and thereupon to plumb deeply into the complexities of Cuba-US relations between the 1960s and the 1990s. He answers some old questions and, just as important, he has raised new ones.' Louis A. Pérez, The American Historical Review

• List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Between revolution and counterrevolution; 2. The legacy of violence; 3. A time for dialogue?; 4. The crisis of 1980; 5. Acting as a 'superhero'?; 6. The two contrary currents; 7. Making foreign policy domestic?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Hideaki Kami is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Kanagawa University, Japan. He is a recipient of the Saito Makoto Prize and the Fulbright Award for Doctoral Studies, and has conducted archival research in the United States, Cuba, and elsewhere.

'Kami has fashioned a compelling assessment of Cuban immigration as a factor of decisive policy importance, and thereupon to plumb deeply into the complexities of Cuba-US relations between the 1960s and the 1990s. He answers some old questions and, just as important, he has raised new ones.' Louis A. Pérez, The American Historical Review

• List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Between revolution and counterrevolution; 2. The legacy of violence; 3. A time for dialogue?; 4. The crisis of 1980; 5. Acting as a 'superhero'?; 6. The two contrary currents; 7. Making foreign policy domestic?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.