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En su afan por superar su aislamiento politico y hacerle frente al colapso economico, el regimen cubano ha tenido que adaptarse y acomodarse, aun a reganadientes, al nuevo medio ambiente internacional que le rodea. Con ese fin, reoriento su politica exterior, remodelo el estilo de su diplomacia y creo una dinamica de cambio que le ha permitido presentarles a sus nuevos interlocutores una imagen mas favorable del regimen cubano. En un tiempo relativamente corto, Cuba ha tenido exito en romper su aislamiento politico. Sin embargo, al tratar de integrarse al Occidente, el regimen se ha visto expuesto al estrecho escrutinio de su politica domestica y a constantes exigencias para que transforme su sistema politico y economico. (Cuba Stud/DÜI)

Examines public attitudes toward promotion of human rights and environmental protection abroad, use of US troops abroad, and other issues. Based on Chicago Council on Foreign Relations surveys, 1974-94, and other survey data.

Putnam's (1988) conjecture that negotiators can benefit from their domestic constraints implies that they may want to impose domestic constraints on themselves by granting veto power to an agent. I show that a negotiator's decision to employ an agent as veto player depends on the kinds of information available to the foreign country and the alignment of preferences between the negotiator and the agent. When the foreign country has incomplete information about the negotiator's preferences and the negotiator has preferences too divergent from those of the agent, the negotiator will not give veto power to the agent. However, this applies only to an agent with extreme preferences, and a surprisingly large number of agent types will receive veto power. The attractiveness of the agent veto to the negotiator is in part due to its informational effect. By granting veto power to an agent, the negotiator can transmit more information to the foreign country and capture informational gains that would be lost in the absence of the agent veto.