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Since the beginning of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro and his Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) has sought to maintain at least operational control over state security, i.e., the Ministry of Interior (Minint). Between 1960 and 1989 FAR and Minint competed for resources and for the attention of the Revolution's supreme leader, Fidel Castro. In 1989 Raúl Castro was finally able to achieve his objective of absorbing Minint's operational missions, namely domestic security, when, after a series of crises associated with the end of the Cold War, corruption scandals in Minint, and indiscretions by the Minint leadership, Fidel acquiesced and allowed Raúl and FAR to purge Minint and take control of state security.

Utilizes a comparative methodology to examine developments in the role of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR) in Cuba, seeking both to redress the omission of such an approach in theoretical & analytical studies of the FAR & to answer the call for more cross-regional comparisons. The research issue considered here & the cross-regional, multiple case study perspective -- examining Cuban, Chinese, & Vietnamese civil military operations -- are part of an attempt to respond to empirical & methodological questions in scholarship in this area. These examples offer inferences & generalizations that can be of use in theorizing civil-military relations in post-Cold War totalitarian states. Comparison also illuminates the military's function in the political & economic development -- or lack thereof -- in these regimes. 1 Table, 1 photograph.

The difficulty of policing a complex border like that between the United States and Mexico, specifically stemming the flow of illegal drugs and immigration, demonstrates, according to Peter Andreas's insightful and pathbreaking analysis, the challenges associated with globalization, diminished sovereignty, and economic integration between developed and developing economies. In fact, as he notes, intensifying law enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border has had several unintended consequences, including enhancing the incentive and thus the flow of illegal drugs and migrants, which, in turn, create obstacles to the expansion of legal flows. Throughout the book an implicit question emerges: How do you balance the positive gains from globalization with the negative or dark side effects of free trade, that is, drug trafficking and illegal immigration? Taking the dilemma further, how can states in a global, borderless economy promote two contradictory policies simultaneously: strong prohibitionist, law-enforcement policies to enforce state sovereignty and economic neoliberalism and integration?

This article attempts to fill a methodological and analytical void in the study of civil-military relations in Cuba. Specifically, it examines the impact of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FAR)'s growing role in the economy on civilian/party control. The case of China and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) offers an interesting comparison because of the breadth and depth of economic reforms and military participation in the economy. The PLA's involvement in profit-making activities has had an eroding effect on professionalism, preparedness, and civilian/party control. Cuba has so far contained the dangers of bingshang (soldiers in business) by limiting and closely monitoring the military's role in the country's vacillating economic reforms. The comparison also demonstrates the importance of the generation of leadership attempting to readjust patterns of civil-military relations.

Explores why Fidel Castro's Communist regime has survived domestic and foreign challenges in the post-Cold War era; topics include changes in the totalitarian state and armed forces, Cuban nationalism, US-Cuba relations, economic conditions, and scenarios for a post-Castro transition; 5 articles.

Examines civil-military relations, focusing on role of Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, in restructuring and reorganizing the armed forces and economy. Included in a collection of articles under the overall title "Regionalism revisited".

Diplomatic and economic relations between Latin American countries and the People's Republic of China have become increasingly relevant for both sides, particularly in the areas of trade, investment, and scientific and technological cooperation. Relations have also intensified because of changes in the international balance of power; the PRC's Third World policy is shaped by the friction between the PRC and the world's great powers, including the United States. Competition from Taiwan for Latin American opportunities is another significant influence.