Cuba in the Multipolar World Order

Wolfgang Muno is Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Rostock since 2018. His research interests include the study of populism and democracy with a focus on Latin America as well as the study of Latin America in international relations and development and underdevelopment in Latin America. He has conducted research at numerous international universities, such as the Johns Hopkins University, University of Texas at Austin (USA), University of Ottawa (Kanada), Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), and Universidad de Havana (Cuba). His most recent books include Venezuela - Dimensions of a Crisis (2023, co-edited with Miguel Angel Latouche and Alexandra Gericke) and Populismus an der Macht (Populism in Power, 2021, co-edited with Christian Pfeiffer). Christian Pfeiffer is research assistant at the Chair of Comparative Government at the University of Rostock. His research focuses on current politics inIbero-America and populism. He has been a visiting researcher at numerous universities, including the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, the Universidad de Havana, and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His most recent books include Populismus an der Macht, (2022, edited with Wolfgang Muno) and Auswärtige Kulturpolitik in Spanien und Deutschland (2021). Ernesto Domínguez López is Full Professor at the University of Havana's Centre for the Study of the Western Hemisphere and the United States. His research includes the study of the Cuban-American community in Florida and the nature of the US political system. He has taught in many universities across the globe including the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France and the University of Rostock in Germany and has given guest lectures at the London School of Economics as well as Stanford and Columbia in the United States among many others. His most recent publications include "There and back again: United States policy toward Cuba in the 21st century" (2023) and "Capitalismo de conocimiento. Transición y contradicciones políticas en los Estados Unidos del siglo XXI" (2022).