Research Catalog

Title

• Cuba after Castro : legacies, challenges, and impediments / Edward Gonzalez, Kevin F. McCarthy.

Author

Gonzalez, Edward

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• McCarthy, Kevin F., 1945-
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• Rand Corporation

Description

xxv, 126 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Cuba is nearing the end of the Castro era. When that end arrives, the government that succeeds Fidel Castro, as well as the Cuban people themselves, will need answers to the following questions: How is Castro's more than four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What are the political, social, and economic challenges that Cuba will have to confront? What are the impediments that will need to be surmounted if Cuba is to develop economically and embark on a democratic transition? To answer those questions, the authors examine Castro's political legacies, Cuba's generational and racial divisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy, and the need for industrial restructuring. They conclude by offering policy guidelines for the United States to foster a stable and prosperous post-Castro Cuba.

Subject

• Cuba > Economic conditions > 1990-
• Cuba > Forecasting
• Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-
• Cuba > Social conditions > 1959-
• Economic forecasting > Cuba
• Since 1900
• Social problems > Cuba > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

Computer network resources.

Note

• "MG-111."
• "Prepared for the National Defense Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

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

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the Internet.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Political legacies, social challenges -- Castro's political legacies : Caudilloism and totalitarianism -- Cuba's disaffected youth -- Cuba's racial divide -- The structural challenges ahead -- Cuba's changing demographic structure -- The institutional legacy of a centralized economy -- The need for industrial restructuring.

ISBN

0833035355 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004000924

OCLC

54046358

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library