Constructing US Foreign Policy The Curious Case of Cuba Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy Series
This book seeks to address the roots of the hostility that has characterized the United States? relationship with Cuba and has persisted for decades, long after the Cold War. It answers the question of why America?s Cold War era policy toward Cuba has not substantially changed, despite a radically changed international environment, going beyond the common explanation that American electoral politics and the Cuban lobby drive US policy toward Cuba.
Bernell argues that US foreign policy towards Cuba cannot be viewed as an objective response to a set of challenges to US interests and principles, and is better understood as a policy that is rooted in and informed by historical understandings of American and Cuban identities, which are themselves historically contingent. Examining a wide range of sources including government documentation and official speeches, this work explores the origins and perpetuation of a policy perspective that emphasizes Cuban difference, illegitimacy, and inferiority juxtaposed against American virtue, legitimacy, and superiority.
This work will be of great interest to all scholars of US foreign policy, International Relations, and Latin American politics.
1. Introduction 2. Imagining Latin America and Cuba 3. Constructing Reagan’s Castro 4. Waiting for Fidel 5. Conclusion
Date de parution : 11-2012
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 03-2011
15.6x23.4 cm
Mots-clés :
cuban; people; revolution; monroe; doctrine; american; western; hemisphere; government; democracy; United States; postCold War; Cuban Democracy Act; Cuban American National Foundation; Cuban People; Cuban Government; Teller Amendment; Platt Amendment; Secretary Of State; Fi Rst President Bush; Cuban Revolution; UN; Monroe Doctrine; Monroe Stated; post-Castro Cuba; Reagan Team; Cuba Policy; Cuban Liberty; Human Rights; Mythical Speech; Organization Of American States; Ibero American Summit; American Superiority; Cuban Freedom; Reagan Administration