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United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship by arguing that U.S. policy toward the island is not driven primarily by the political position of the U.S.-based Cuban community, but rather by a long-standing desire of U.S. leaders to dominate this island, a position that for fifty years has met with stubborn resistance from Cuba's revolutionary leaders

The authors begin from the premise that it is useful to analyse broad trends in international affairs by identifying key moments of change. The primary focus is the current phase of international affairs that has been labelled the post-Cold War world. The authors accept that the fall of the USSR at the end of 1991 marked an important change in geopolitics but argue that the 30-year time period since the fall of the Soviet Union has been marked by some very important changes. The era began with a seemingly omnipotent United States that proclaimed a New World Order of peace, prosperity and democracy. The authors analyse how that vision did not come to pass in the context of wars in the Middle East and the rise of China as a great power and the recovery of Russia. Cuba's role in the post-Cold War era is analysed and preliminary thoughts are made on the potential changing world order in the context of the Russia-Ukraine War.

Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election without a clearly articulated policy for either Cuba or the Latin American/Caribbean region as a whole. Two years into that presidency, this article seeks to describe that policy and place it within Trump's wider foreign policy. The article deconstructs the worldview of 'America First' as lying within the perspective of the neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party, epitomised by John Bolton, the current National Security Advisor. The implications of that worldview for Cuba and Latin America make for a reversal of Obama's opening to Cuba, a hardline on immigration from Mexico and Central America, and greater pressure for regime change in both Venezuela and Nicaragua. Also analysed is the resonance of Trump's policies with the recent turn to the political right in Latin America, notably in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Colombia.

Argentina's social movements : confrontation and co-optation / Gary Prevost -- The Landless Rural Workers' Movement and their waning influence on Brazil's Workers' Party government / Harry E. Vanden -- Social movements and revolutionary change in Bolivia / Waltraud Q. Morales -- Dilemmas of urban popular movements in popular-sector comunas of Santiago, Chile / Edward Greaves -- Social movements and the government of Rafael Correa : confrontation or cooperation? / Marc Becker -- Venezuela: movements for rent? / Daniel Hellinger.

Over the past decade there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide from the demonstrations that helped bring progressive governments to power in Latin America to the Arab Spring to Occupy movements in the United States and Europe to democracy protests in China. This edited volume investigates the current status, nature, and dynamics of the new politics that characterizes social movements from around the world that are part of this revolutionary wave. Spanning case studies from five continents - Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the USA - this volume examines the varied manifestations of the current cycle of protest, which emerged from the Global South, as they found expression in various parts of the world as well as their interconnections - the globalized nature of movements. Analytically converging around Sidney Tarrow's emphasis on protest cycles, political opportunity structures, and identity, the individual chapters investigate processes such as global framing, internationalization, diffusion, scale shifts, externalizations, and transnational coalition building, to provide an analytic cartography of the current state of social movements as they are simultaneously globalizing while still being embedded in their respective localities.

In this edited volume, scholars from Latin America and the United States will analyze how US foreign policy making circles have applied the concepts to the creation of new US security initiatives in the Latin American region during the post September 11, 2001 era.

1. Introduction / Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden --. - 2. From the US Department of State, USAID, and Washington-based Think Tanks: The Search for Ungoverned Spaces in South America / Luiza R. Mateo and Aline P. dos Santos --. - 3. The United State and the Security Agenda in the Caribbean Basin After 9/11 / Carlos Oliva Campos --. - 4. The Militarization of Mexico-US Relations: Ungoverned Spaces and Failed State? / Jaime A. Precaido Coronado and Angel L. Florido Alejo --. - 5. Maras, Contragoverned Spaces and Sovereignty / Harry E. Vanden --. - 6. Central America: Ungoverned Spaces and the National Security Policy of the United States / Ignacio Medina Núñez --. - 7. Security Issues on the Mexico-Guatemala Border and their Relationship to the New National Security Policy of the United States / Daniel Villafuerte-Solís --. - 8. Old Wine in New Wineskins: Incorporating the 'Ungoverned Spaces' Concept into Plan Colombia / John C. Dugas --. - 9. US Response to the Haitian Earthquake in the Context of the Concepts of Failed State and Ungoverned Spaces / Gary Prevost --. - 10. Conclusion /\ ; Gary Prevost, Carlos Oliva Campos, Luis Fernando Ayerbe and Harry E. Vanden