... in Havana. This essay traces the origins of this event and places it in the context of communist Cuba’s history and its relations with religious institutions. Justine Williams is a doctoral student in sociocultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work is based...

... (1926 – 29), and Havana, Cuba (1933 – 37 and 1941 – 42); ambassador to the Dominican Republic (1944); ambassador to Uruguay (1947 – 49); ambassador to Czecho- slovakia (1949 – 52); ambassador to South Korea (1952 – 55); ambassador to Peru (1955 – 56); and ambassador to Brazil (1956 – 59...

... to argue against a Greek EEZ similar to the one it itself has established. Furthermore, Cuba is only ninety miles from the coast of Florida, but the United States did not argue that Cuba, because it is an island, does not have any rights to an EEZ. In fact, the United States and Cuba came...

... a follow-up query. An anchor- person for the BBC World Service on 26 December 1997 enthused, “Christ- mas in Cuba: For the first time in almost forty years Cubans were able to celebrate Christmas and go to church!” She then linked up with the BBC cor- respondent in Havana, who observed, “A crowd of two...

... examples indicat- ing that a right to intervene by force on the territory of another state could properly be conferred by treaty. Article 3 of the Cuban- American Treaty of Relations of 22 May 1903 between Cuba and the United States provided the following: The government of Cuba consents...

... differences over the past decade are numerous but should be bridgeable. Europeans do not agree with the American sanctions policies visvis Iran, Iraq, and Cuba, and most European leaders see the American role in the Middle East process as too favorable to Israel. Missile defense is at issue...

... terrorism: Cuba, Sudan, and Syria. The main purpose of the NMD is to defend the United States from limited intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) attacks from rogue states. In its ini- tial phase, the NMD is expected to have one hundred interceptor missiles...

...Nazmi Akiman Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2002 Nazmi Akiman served as Turkish ambassador to Greece from 1984 to 1989. As a career Foreign Service officer, he also served as Turkey's ambassador to Spain and Cuba. The author is grateful to Tozun Bahcheli of King's College, London,Ontario...

... American War. Osten- sibly, the United States was concerned about how the Spanish were treat- ing their colonial subjects in Cuba during one of the many uprisings there. The United States had wisely avoided getting involved in internal revolts in Cuba on previous occasions. This time the United...

... groups that have used terrorism. Sudan and Cuba have dropped most of their associations with terrorist groups. Even Iran, still deserving of the title of “number one sponsor of terrorism,” has curtailed its own terrorist activity, notably, the assassination of exiled dissidents. The reduction...

.... Note: It is interesting that neither of the above sources lists Cuba, where combat troops had been dispatched in 1962. They installed and serviced Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles targeted at the United States. Whether Russia can continue maintaining or perhaps...

... economic measures as the Helms-Burton Act (1996) punish companies doing business in Cuba, and the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act created ill will and resentment among U.S. allies. Assessment of the Measures and Responses As noted above...

... to engage our armed forces, such as when President Reagan invaded Panama and Grenada—both without the prior authorization of Congress—in part due to the potential of Soviet solidarity with Cuba creating interference in the case of Panama...

... Hughes: “Waging Peace” 21 across the world. We must build our relationships with India and Pakistan. We must reach out to people across an emerging China. We must establish relationships with people even when we don’t have relationships with their governments, in places such as Cuba and Iran...

... on Cuba since 2002. But the officer first in charge at Guantanamo, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, was well known for training soldiers in “improved inter- rogation techniques” before he went on to oversee the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, where severe abuses of Iraqi detainees were reported in 2004...

... on Cuba since 2002. But the officer first in charge at Guantanamo, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, was well known for training soldiers in “improved inter- rogation techniques” before he went on to oversee the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, where severe abuses of Iraqi detainees were reported in 2004...

... analysis, Russia has been looking to secure support facilities around the world. After closing bases in Cuba and Vietnam in 2002, Russia’s only overseas “coaling station” was in Syria, whose future became as uncertain as that of Syria itself. In 2014, Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu...

...- tions and in NATO. At the height of the Cold War and in the aftermath of the crises in Cuba and Berlin, the United States sought to limit the damage to the alliance and the risk of Soviet involvement by relying on Athens, as the ethnikon kentron (the national center of Hellenism), to control...

... swath of territory. Ethiopian forces ejected the Somali forces with the help of troops from Cuba and Yemen. In the 1980s, Ethiopian dictator Mengitsu Haile Mariam began to arm and train Somali dissidents. Several Somali groups were created...

... or nationalist governments in Afghanistan (in the 1980s), Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, East Timor, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Fiji Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Indonesia (under Sukarno), Iran, Jamaica, Lebanon, Libya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Portugal, South...