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... 2011 New Political Science, Volume 33, Number 2, June 2011 Precarious Politics: Experiments in Market-Socialism and the Prospects for Cuban Women's Unfinished Revolution Joseph de la Torre Dwyer Rutgers University, USA Abstract For more than 150 years, feminists have debated the comparative merits...

... Cuba’s leadership. One faction, lead by Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urged support for all revolutionary movements, including the Black Panther Party. Another more moderate faction wished to downplay such support as means of avoiding US reprisals. Ultimately this faction prevailed, leaving Cuban support...

... focuses on Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia, the three countries that have sometimes been described as the Latin American "axis of evil. /I As the eight-year presidency of George Bush was winding down, Raul Castro took his first overseas trip as the Cuban president to meet with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela...

... 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...

... 2016 to 2020 is small, the slight increase is nevertheless perplexing given Trump's rhetoric toward the Latinx community. Notably, treating Latinx voters as a monolith could be problematic given Cuban Americans' propensity to identify as Republican. Cuban American support for Trump does not follow...

... 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...

... scrutiny. This situation was 110 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE further enhanced by the control of the Senate by his own party. His conservative agenda included a policy of constructive engagement with South Africa, linkage of UN sponsored independence for Namibia with the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola...

... 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...

... not be denied, but what of the intent? The Reagan administration justified the assault by claiming (a) it was a rescue operation on behalf of American students whose safety was being threatened at the St. George medical school; (b) the island harbored a large contingent of Cuban troops and "deadly armaments...

... to attempt to spread his influence throughout the region, "championing like-minded movements throughout Latin America and maintaining close ties with Cuban President Fidel Castro." Lest readers think this could be a positive development, The Washington Post turned to Michael Shifter, an analyst at Inter...

..., 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...

... been predicted many times, most confidently after the dissolution of the Soviet Union a decade ago. Its persistence is therefore something of a puzzle. This detailed study of the representative institutions of Cuban government provides considerable insight Reviews 165 as to the sources...

.... As in the case of Mao Tse-Tung, the writings of Kim II Sung regularly appeared in The Black Panther. The Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara in the veritable backyard of the United States captured the imagination of the Black Panther Party. Castro and Guevara were frequently referenced...

..., "International Crises and Protracted Conflicts," International Interactions 11 (1984), pp. 237-97; Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow, Essence of Decision. Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (New York, NY: Longman, 1999). 3Alex Mintz and Karl DeRouen, Understanding Foreign Policy Decision-Making (Cambridge, UK...

... the Ilighest ethnic intermarriage rates, with 58.2% married outside of tIle group. For Cubans the rate is 34.2%, for Mexicans it is 14% and for whites it is 6.6%. For Puerto Ricans WilO are married under the age of 35, 69.4% are married outside of the group.14 Another factor that Ilas a bearing on limiting...

... defiance" of the United States. That included Cuba's resistance to the Bay of Pigs invasion, but also much more serious crimes. When Kennedy ordered his staff to subject Cubans to the "terrors of the earth" until Castro is eliminated, his planners advised that "The very existence of his regime represents...

...), and is currently working on a manuscript entitled Poverty in American Filnl. Joseph de la Torre Dwyer is a PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers University. His dissertation investigates socialist-feminism in Cuban politics since 1959 and inquires into the theoretical sources of its unique economy while...

.... American accusations that the Russians aided and. abetted the hijacking of a Pakistani airplane in Afghanistan, claims of Soviet and Cuban arms shipments to terrorists in EI Salvador, and Reagan's assertion that the Soviet Union always has been the source of terrorism confirm this change in focus. A couple...

... label, yielding notlling but a bogus identity that blurs the qualitative differences between Latin Americans, Spaniards, and people of Spanish, Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican descent who have lived in the US for generations. True, every national origin label (e.g. Latin American, Spanish, etc.) erases...

... the 1970s. In her well-researched analysis of the relationship between Cuba and the Black movement, Ruth Reitan furnishes us with previously unrecounted details of the intricacies of the ebb and flows of Cuban hospitality and solidarity. From the outside, Cuba and the BPP are two sides of the same coin...