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Vietnam seems to be moving into the post-Cold War era more quickly and surefootedly than Cuba. The Vietnamese economy appears to be developing more rapidly and integrating into regional and global markets less painfully than the Cuban. Four factors explain Vietnam's advantage: economic policy, national culture, leadership, and regionalism. However, common phenomena continue to challenge both regimes: flourishing religious devotion, increasing corruption and materialism, disaffection among youth, rising inequality, and the burgeoning gap between socialist rhetoric and modern capitalist reality. (Cuba Stud/DÜI)

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Exploring Central American Drug Trafficking -- 1 Central America and the International Trade in Drugs -- 2 Belize -- 3 Costa Rica -- 4 Guatemala -- 5 Honduras -- 6 Panama -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Cases -- Index of Names -- General Index

One might try to determine just what constitutes a sovereign state empirically, by examining the characteristics of states whose sovereignty is indisputable. All sovereign states, it might be observed, have territory, people, and a government. Curiously, however, cogent standards do not seem to exist either in law or in practice for the dimensions, number of people, or form of government that might be required of a sovereign state. Indeed, a United Nations General Assembly Resolution declared that neither small size, nor remote geographical location, nor limited resources constitutes a valid objection to sovereign statehood.