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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Bringing Back that Loving Feeling: Passion, Affection, and Politics -- 2. With Feeling Now: The Political Culture of Cuba Reconsidered -- 3. Emotional Political History: Cuba in the Twentieth Century -- 4. An Affair of the Heart: Passion, Affection, and Revolution -- 5. Losing that Loving Feeling: The Regeneration of Passion and Affection -- 6. Where Did Our Love Go? Emotions and the Politics of lo informal -- 7. But Will You Love Me Tomorrow? Passion, Affection, and Civil Society in Transition, -- 8. Epilogue: Passion and Affection from a Distance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In spite of the growing academic interest in Cuba's international relations in the revolutionary period. Cuba's policy toward the Middle East has been a neglected field of study. Although the Middle East has not been a high priority item on Fidel Castro's agenda, various factors have combined to propel the regime into taking a more active stance in the region, not least of which is the importance of the Middle East to the Soviet Union. Some of these factors have been ideological, such as the nature of Castroism itself. Other factors have been more pragmatic: the need to increase Cuba's leverage with the Soviet Union; the desire to establish spheres of interest of its own in the Third World; the attempt to use external politics to soothe internal problems and the wish to maximize the prestige of the Cuban revolution, and, by extension, that of its lider maximo. Since 1959, Havana's Middle Eastern policy has experienced four stages: (1) 1959-1973: Autonomous foreign policy, marked by a dual relationship with both Israel and the Arab states. (2) 1973-1977: Accommodation to the Soviet line; anti-Israeli policy combined with an expansion of relations with progressive states, signalled by the establishment of Cuban military missions. (3) 1977-1980: Activist policy in the region, expanded role and development of diplomatic relationships. (4) 1981 to the present (1985): Cautious involvement; restrained activism, emphasizing socio-economic cooperation. Cuba's incursion into the Arab world illuminates how Cuban foreign policy works, especially in relation to autonomy, convergence, and subordination; dependence, pragmatism, and ideology. The island's entrance into Middle East politics has introduced new risks into the island's foreign policy in return for the benefits which have been derived. A theory to explain Cuba's foreign policy in its interaction with the Soviet Union in the Third World must include heretofore neglected variables: time; regime type; and factionalism (bureaucratic politics), in addition to external events. The study of Cuba's initiatives in the Middle East will serve to test this theory.

La politica exterior de Cuba es uno de los temas mas estudiados en la literatura de las relaciones internacionales de America Latina. Sin embargo, el proceso de toma de decisiones no ha sido explorado cabalmente y es una de las ultimas fronteras de este campo de investigacion. El presente articulo propone un marco conceptual para el analisis y lo aplica a dos decisiones con respecto a Angola. Las conclusiones sugieren que a pesar de los limites de informacion impuestos por el gobierno, el proceso de toma de decisiones en Cuba, particularmente en momentos de crisis, es muy semejante al de la mayoria de los otros estados

Partial contents: Charismatic leadership and ideology; The state and the domestic political system; Connection to an international source of power; The regional and international context; The Cuban model: benefits, costs, and risks.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Brenner, Phillip: From confrontation to negotiation - U.S. relations with Cuba. - Boulder/Colo. : Westview Press, 1988. - 118 S