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General Introduction xiii . - Mauricio A. Font. - . - Part I Economy. - . - Introduction: Economic Liberalization. - 3 (6). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 1 Perspective on a Changing Cuba. - 9 (13). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 2 Updating Cuba's Economic Model. - 22 (14). - Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva. - . - 3 Cuba's Evolving Public Policies toward Small Enterprise. - 36 (14). - Archibald R. M. Ritter. - . - 4 New Forms of Enterprise in Cuba's Changing Economy. - 50 (14). - Camila Pineiro Harnecker. - . - 5 Foreign Exchange Constraints: Crisis, Adjustment, and Gradual Exit. - 64 (17). - Pavel Vidal Alejandro. - . - 6 Sector agropecuario y lineamientos. - 81 (16). - Armando Nova Gonzalez. - . - 7 Cuba's Agricultural Transformations: Moving toward Market Socialism?. - 97 (14). - Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo. - . - 8 Tourism in Cuba: Barriers to Economic Growth and Development. - 111 (13). - Hilary Becker. - . - 9 Cuba's Socialist Economy from Distorted Tertiarization to Market-Compatible Reforms. - 124 (13). - Alberto Gabriele. - . - 10 Forecasting Cuba's Economy: Two Years, Five Years, and Twenty Years. - 137 (28). - Emily Morris. - . - Part II Politics and Civil Society. - . - Introduction. - 165 (4). - Carlos Riobo. - . - 11 Cuba: Institutional Challenges for a Heterodox Reform. - 169 (7). - Carlos Alzugaray. - . - Armando Chaguaceda Noriega. - . - 12 The Politics of Culture in Cuba. - 176 (15). - Yvon Grenier. - . - 13 Expansion of the Religious Media in Contemporary Cuba. - 191 (12). - Margaret E. Crahan. - . - 14 Indirect Confrontation: The Evolution of the Political Strategy of the Cuban Catholic Church. - 203 (16). - Robert A. Portada III. - . - 15 Race in Cuban Society Today: The Letter and the Spirit. - 219 (9). - Miguel Barnet. - . - 16 Sparks of Civil Society in Cuba: Afro-Cuban Cultural Production, Artistic Interventions, and the Struggle for a New Public Sphere. - 228 (15). - Zoya Kocur. - . - 17 Clase versus raza en Cuba: la cuestion racial y el alzamiento del Partido Independiente de Color bajo la perspectiva anarquista (1902-1913). - 243 (15). - Amparo Sanchez Cobos. - . - 18 Cuban Freemasons in the Development of Civil Society and Political Opening. - 258 (15). - Jorge Luis Romeu. - . - Part III Cuba and the World. - . - Introduction. - 273 (4). - Carlos Riobo. - . - 19 Cuba's Reintegration into a Changing World. - 277 (10). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - 20 Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights. - 287 (13). - Larry Cata Backer. - . - 21 La posicion comun de la Union Europea respecto a Cuba: una reflexion critica. - 300 (16). - Jose Chofre-Sirvent. - . - Carmen Anton-Guardiola. - . - 22 North Americans in Cuba in the 1960s. - 316 (14). - David Strug. - . - 23 Reinventing Guantanamo: Cuba-US Biofuel Production Capability. - 330 (16). - J. R. Paron. - . - Maria P. Aristigueta. - . - Conclusion 346 (5). - Mauricio A. Font. - . - Appendix: Economic Indicators 351 (2). - Janaina Said. - . - Acronyms and Terms 353 (4). - Bibliography 357 (31). - Index 388 (17). - About the Contributors 405 . - Close. - . -

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An introductory essay presenting the topics of the contributions to this issue of the journal, which address, among others, the relationship between politics & law, distribution of power in contemporary democracies, the relationship between nation & democracy in various models of federalism, & the crisis of the public sphere in contemporary democracies. The topics of citizenship, representation in democracy, immigration, & ecological politics discussed in the review articles are mentioned. It is noted that political theory faces conceptual & methodological challenges to adequately explain & describe the transformations & profound changes that have recently occurred, & many are still underway, in contemporary politics. It is observed that the conceptual arsenal that political theory has at its disposal is often too antiquated, inadequate, & limited to furnish viable accounts of present-day political realities. Z. Dubiel

One of the central problems of contemporary politics lies in the difficulty of its legitimacy. The legitimacy of politics had been carried out according to the rules & rationality within the political arena. Politics today, however, faces a situation in which there is a large variety of spheres & logic that compete against it in order to arrive at a definition of the public. Without a doubt, one of these spheres & perhaps the most significant, is generated by the media. The media is inseparable from the political system, in so far as the rules of the first prevail on the latter. Starting from these premises, the article deals with four large aspects that express the fragmentary, if not entropic, character of contemporary politics. The first of these deals with the deinstitutionalization of politics, which stems either from the draining or the ownership of it by various lobbying groups. The second of this highlights the non political forces of legitimacy, focused on the use of "public opinion" by the mass media. The third explains the instability & inconsistency of political formulas, subjugated to the same ephemeral process as news production. As a result & in fourth place, one can talk about the emergence of a new political model, one which the author classifies as "news democracy.". Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by (1) Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon Montero, & Joan Botella, Democracy in Modern Spain (New Haven: Yale U Press, 2004); (2) Jose M. Magone, Contemporary Spanish Politics (London: Routledge, 2004); & (3) Sebastian Balfour (Ed), The Politics of Contemporary Spain (London: Routledge, 2005). References.

The concept of sacrifice is used as a lens through which to view moments of history & the contemporary political arena. It is argued that politics is intimately involved in sacrifice: it is the art of curing by sacrifice. In establishing consensus, victims are symbolically sacrificed. Politics maintains the realm of the sacred in order to conquer power. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the trivialization of contemporary political life through the cult of personality and the attention given to appearance, to the detriment of democracy and of strong and honest public discourse; Argentina.

An analysis of the historic and contemporary criteria for territorial divisions in Guatemala, including early planning, constitutional factors, and influences of cities, health, education, agriculture, labor, security, the judiciary, and the environment