Cuba in the International System

"Important collection of 16 essays by Cuban and foreign specialists emerging from the symposium 'Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration' held at Carleton Univ., Ottawa, in Sept. 1993. Articles on external sector reforms (by Pedro Monreal and Manuel Raua), remittances (by Carmelo Mesa-Lago), commercial relations with Latin America (by Francisco Leaon), US subsidiaries' trade with Cuba (by Donna Rich Kaplowitz), and compensation issues in US-Cuba normalization of relations (by Archibald R.M. Ritter) have significant economic content and are quite valuable" - Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

• Acknowledgements - The Contributors - Introduction; J.M.Kirk & A.R.M.Ritter - THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHALLENGES - Cuban Nationalism and Political Democracy Towards the Twenty-First Century; M.Perez-Stable - Cuba, Castro, Clinton and Canosa; A.Zimbalist - 'Apertura' and Reform of the Cuban Economy: the Institutional Transformations, 1990-93; P.Monreal & M.Rua del Llano - Prospective Dollar Remittances and the Cuban Economy; C.Mesa-Lago - CUBA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: RECONSIDERATION AND REDESIGN - Cuba's Current Integration into the International and Hemispheric Systems; J.M.Feinsilver - Cuba's Foreign Policy in the 'Special Period'; L.S.Salazar - The International Reinsertion of Cuba: Emerging Scenarios; F.L.Delgado - Cuba's Evolving Caricom Connection; H.M.Erisman - The Canadian Position on Cuba: Unravelling the Paradox; J.M.Kirk - RESOLVING THE US-CUBAN IMPASSE - Cuban Security in the Post Cold War World: Old and New Challenges and Opportunities; C.Alzugaray - 'Conflict Resolution' between the United States and Cuba: Clarifications, Premises and Precautions; R.Hernandez - Clinton and Castro: Pragmatism or Paralysis; G.Gunn - Obstacles to Breaking the US-Cuban Deadlock; E.Gonzalez - Confidence Building Measures and a Cuba-United States Rapprochement; H.P.Klepak - US Subsidiary Trade with Cuba: Pre and Post the Cuban Democracy Act; D.R.Kaplowitz - The Compensation Issue in Cuban-United States Normalization: Who Compensates Whom, Why and How?; A.R.M.Ritter - Selected Bibliography -Index