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African liberation support
Author_H. Michael Erisman
Caribbean Basin
Caribbean geopolitics
Castro's major speeches
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Cold War diplomacy
Cole Blasier
Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces
Communist Parties
Country's Foreign Relations
Cuba's Foreign Policy
Cuban globalism
Cuban military foreign policy analysis
Cuban Soviet Relations
Cuban Soviet Relationship
East West Issues
EPRP
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Havana's foreign policies
Latin American Communist Parties
Latin American Economic System
Latin American Energy Organization
NAM
nationalist expression
Nonaligned Movement
Nonaligned Movement studies
OAS Sanction
socialist internationalism
Southwest African People's Organization
Third World intervention
USSR's Behavior
USSR's Invasion
West Germany
White House National Security Advisor
World's Metropolitan Centers
Product details
- ISBN 9780367005245
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From its inception, Fidel Castro's revolution has exerted an impact on the international scene far out of proportion to Cuba's modest size and limited resources. This phenomenon became more pronounced in the mid-1970s as Havana's foreign policies took on truly global parameters that involved the dispatch of large combat forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the initiation of ambitious military and developmental aid programs for Third World nations, and the assumption of leadership of the Nonaligned Movement. Today Cuba remains a significant actor on the world scene, giving top priority to Caribbean and Central American affairs. Critics, especially in the United States, have insisted that Cuban globalism is not a nationalist expression, that Cuba is but a surrogate for the Soviet Union. Such charges, however, ignore or seriously underestimate the role that nationalism has always played in the Cuban Revolution. This book explores the nature and development of Castro's foreign relations in general and Cuban globalism in particular, with primary attention devoted to nationalism's influence on Havana's policies toward the United States, the Soviet Union, and especially the developing (mostly nonaligned) African, Asian, and Latin countries of the Third World. To give the reader an in-depth Cuban perspective on crucial international issues, excerpts from Castro's major speeches and press interviews are included. Erisman concludes that the nationalistic dimension of Havana's foreign policies has definitely not been fully appreciated, and this omission obscures the complexity and true essence of Cuban globalism.
