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...Ruth Reitan Abstract During the 1960s strong ties of mutual support developed between the Black Panther Party and the revolutionary government of Cuba. These relations were also, however, often difficult and problematic. This paper argues that the problem stemmed from factional struggles among...

...Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Abstract For more than 150 years, feminists have debated the comparative merits of capitalism and socialism for women’s emancipation. This article explores the transition in Cuba as President Raid Castro experiments with market liberalization to shed light on that debate...

... focuses on Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia, the three countries that have sometimes been described as the Latin American “axis of evil.” New Political Science, Volume 31, Number 3, September 2009 The Bush Adm.inistration Record in Latin Am.erica: Sins of Om.ission and Com.m.ission* Walt Vanderbush Miami...

... countries that are defined as 165 166 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE "trouble spots"-Nicaragua, EI Salvador, Guatemala-briefly considering also Panama and Cuba. Because of limited space, I shall not deal with Honduras or Costa Rica, which have figured prominently in the infrastructure for U.S. policy in the region...

... rights and profits."s At the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada, in 2001, 80,000 demonstrators, myself included, braved tear gas and pepper spray expressing outrage against the FTAA, whose terms were being negotiated behind the walls of the old city. Only Venezuela, inside the summit, and Cuba...

..., and the NSC itself. 42 Michael Parenti numbers of their citizens because of their dissenting political views, as in Turkey, Zaire, Chad, Pakistan, Morocco, Indonesia, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, the Philippines, Cuba (under Batista), Nicaragua (under Somoza), Iran...

... local Hibernian club. CARL SWIDORSKI The College of Saint Rose © Carl Swidorski 2008 Mark Q. Sawyer, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 199 pp. The Cuban revolution of 1959 emerged, on the one hand, as a concrete response to specific forms of social...

... of the terrorist attack is not Cuba or Lebanon or Chechnya or a long list of others, but a state 1 Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda (eds), The Age of Terror (New York: Basic Books, 2001). The editors write that with the anthrax attacks, which they attribute to bin Laden, "anxiety became a certainty." 2 Study cited...

... New Political Science, Volume 29, Number 4, December 2007 Book Reviews SUjatha Fernandes, Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, xix +220 pp. This important, provocative, and well-written study contributes...

... frames: "Mr. Chavez is an ex-army lieutenant colonel who attempted a coup d'etat in 1992 and failed. His strongest backing comes from the poor, to whom he directs bitter anti-establishment, nationalist rhetoric. His use of violence in 1992, his visit to Cuba in 1994, his left-wing demagoguery against...

... surrender. The guerrillas-if blessed with sufficient power, skill and luck-may delay defeat, raise the cost of victory to a discouraging level, or even transform themselves into a more equal adversary to their opponents. They also may lose. 59 In the case of Cuba, the outmanned revolutionaries won, leading...

... Convergence: Contemporary Cuba-CARICOM Relations," in H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk (eds Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact of the "Special Period" (University Press of Florida, 2006), Eloise Linger and John Cotman (eds Cuban Transitions at the Millennium (International Development Options...

... that had created distorted development in those regions. Many of the latter were both enthused and 324 Book Reviews influenced by Cuba's successful guerrilla struggle and Frantz Fanon's theory of liberation. Fanon's seminal work identifies three stages in the national-cultural development of the oppressed...

..., lacking in proof In his adulation of Castro's Cuba, Mills proved embarrassingly naive, and in his rejection of America, unnecessarily harsh. Yet he wrote what many left-wing intellectuals, particularly in Western Europe, wanted to believe. As a result, Mills, who craved public attention, won a worldwide...

..., with a focus on international labor migration. John Walton Cotman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University. His publications include "Caribbean Convergence: Contemporary Cuba-CARICOM Relations," in H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk (eds), Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact...

... involved in the Vanguard Party of the Bahamas. From his vantage point of participant and using his own keen analytical powers, he presents for us an example of how acting locally can be a global event. Eldridge Cleaver sought refuge in Cuba in 1968, and Huey Newton spent a few years exiled there during...

...-introductory courses involving the theory and practice of economic policy in global context. PAUL BURKETT Indiana State University Peter Roman, People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government, Boulder: Westview, 1999, xi + 284 pp. The imminent demise of the socialist government of Cuba has...

... organized to force a Coca Cola plant that had been polluting ground water to shut. Mooney lauds Cuba, beyond its effective health care system, for taking SDH seriously and showing "that success in terms of good population health indicators can be achieved in practical ways" (p. 167). Finally, Mooney...

... and supplied him, openly, with arms for his National Rifle Association club in Monroe, chartered since 1957. That Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover opened a file on him in 1959 is too no surprise, especially after Williams made the first of two trips to revolutionary Cuba...

... capitalist nation in the world, and it was increasingly mired and drawn into Vietnam in an effort to prevent the domino effect of revolution from sweeping another country into the communist ranks. Cuba was an enemy, the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall stood firm, and the battle for the Congo raged...