Research Catalog

Title

Cuba : clearing perilous waters? / Edward Gonzalez.

Author

Gonzalez, Edward

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xix, 126 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This report assesses Cuba's current political dynamics and economic prospects, and where Cuba is headed. It analyzes the regime's major civilian and military leaders and institutions, the civil society groups emerging outside the regime, and the respective roles of all these actors in the years ahead. It then evaluates how current U.S. policy, and the options of tightening or lifting the embargo, might hasten or hinder the transition toward a more democratic, market-oriented Cuba. Although it cautions that the final outcome of Cuba's current transition will be determined internally rather than by U.S. policy, the report concludes by proposing a new, bolder U.S. strategy to help accelerate the process of fundamental change on the island.

Subject

• Change
• Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-
• Cuba > Relations > United States
• United States > Relations > Cuba

Note

• "National Defense Research Institute."
• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-126).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Cuba: Heading for Safe or Perilous Waters? -- Ch. 3. Domestic Factors Affecting Cuban Outcomes -- Ch. 4. Regime Leaders, Tendencies, and Institutional Players -- Ch. 5. Civil Society Actors -- Ch. 6. Present U.S. Policy and Its Options -- Ch. 7. U.S. Policy Options and Cuban Futures -- Ch. 8. A Proactive Policy for Cuba -- Appendix. Actors, Models, and Endgames.

ISBN

0833023748 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96018919^

OCLC

34704969

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library