POL3021
THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS 2011/2012
POL3021 CUBA IN THE POST-BIPOLAR WORLD
Level 3 Credit Value 20 Semester Taught One Semester Examined One Module Leader Steve Ludlam Email [email protected] Office 1.23 Tel Ext 21665
Description Cuba is a political enigma about which perceptions vary, and vary dramatically. On the one hand, it is a Caribbean paradise celebrated across the world for the liberated exuberance of its music and dance, and visited by millions of tourists. Across the developing world, it is celebrated for its first-world welfare state, as an anti-imperialist stronghold exporting its brigades of health and education workers, and for its fighters‘ role in the defeat of apartheid in southern Africa. Yet, on the other hand, especially from Washington and Miami, it is seen as a communist hulk kept afloat by the iron will of the Castro brothers, Marxist-Leninist dictators denying their oppressed people integration into the ‗free world‘. To some, therefore, it is an inspiring miracle, to others an inexplicable curse, that the Cuban Revolution has survived the disintegration of the ‗socialist camp‘ in Europe and the Soviet Union, that took with it 80% of Cuba‘s trade and 40% of its national income. In this module you will have the opportunity to get behind the caricatures, and to develop an understanding of how the Cuban Revolution survived the Soviet collapse, of what kind of society Cuba is today, of how its politics work, and of where it might be going in the future, not least in the light of the political changes in Latin America, the retirement of Fidel Castro, and the elections of presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama.
Objectives
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
. Display a critical understanding of the historical origins and political character of Cuban nationalism. . Display a critical understanding of the social and economic development of Cuba since 1959. . Be able to discuss and evaluate the development of Cuba‘s political institutions and organisations. . Display a critical understanding of the patterns of dependency and conflict deriving from Cuba‘s relationships with the USSR and the USA. . Discuss and evaluate Cuba‘s domestic and international ‗opening‘ to capitalism. . Discuss and evaluate the impact of Cuba‘s ‗Special Period‘ on its social and political development. . Discuss and evaluate contemporary debates on the future of the Cuban Revolution.
Organisation
11 two-hour weekly seminars.
Group 1 – Wednesday 11:10 – 1:00pm in Elmfield SR G20. Group 2 – Thursday 1:10 – 3:00pm in Elmfield SR 215.
YOU MUST ATTEND THE SEMINAR GROUP THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED TO.
Requirements
Attendance at and participation in all seminars, including oral presentation Submission of two paper copies of each of two essays: (essay 1) by 12.00 noon on Monday 21 November 2011, and (essay 2) by 12.00 noon on Monday 23 January 2012. Electronic versions must also be submitted via MOLE by the same deadlines. 120 hours of private study
Assessment
Two essays, each 50% of module mark
1 POL3021
Essay 1 titles (choose one)
1. ‗The Cuban Revolution began as a nationalist revolt.‘ Discuss. 2. Why did the Cuban Revolution move towards communism? 3. What achievements underpin the legitimacy of the Cuban Revolution? 4. Was Cuba a Soviet puppet during the Cold War? 5. Is Cuba a democracy? 6. Did the ‗Special Period‘ reforms signal and end to socialism in Cuba? 7. What has been the impact on Cuban society of the ‗Special Period‘? 8. As it has recovered from the post-Soviet crisis, how has Cuba tried to restore its socialist project?
Essay 2 titles (choose one)
1. What kind of ‗civil society‘ does Cuba have? 2. Why was the US embargo tightened after the collapse of the USSR? 3. What role has terrorism played in Cuba-US relations? 4. Do civil rights in Cuba justify the significance of the rights issue in Cuba‘s foreign relations? 5. Do Cuba‘s relations with Latin America in the 21st century guarantee the Revolution‘s future? 6. Is Cuba‘s medical internationalism a humanitarian or a diplomatic phenomenon? 7. Has Obama made a difference to Cuba-US relations? 8. Does the Cuban Revolution have a future?
Essays must, to avoid the risk of adjustment of marks
be fully referenced and include a bibliography in one of the two obligatory formats set out in the Politics Department Undergraduate Handbook be a maximum of 3000 words in length (each essay) include a word count on the title page be submitted both in paper format and electronically to MOLE
The Undergraduate Handbook (also on the Department website) contains guidance on:
essay writing and other academic skills required referencing/bibliography styles marking criteria criteria for awarding degrees rules governing submission of assessed work and attendance non-attendance late submission of assessed work submission of over-length work
Two paper copies and an electronic copy of each essay must be handed in: the first essay by 12.00 noon on Monday 21 November 2011, the second essay by 12.00 noon on Monday 23 January 2012.
Standard penalties for late submission will automatically apply. Please do not harass the office staff if you miss the deadline. Note that waiting times for printing in computing suites can be considerable at busy times of the year. Applications for deadline extensions must be made in advance on the appropriate form available in the Department Office, with accompanying medical (not self-certificated) or equivalent written evidence.
Study Hours
For a twenty-credit module, about twelve hours per week of private study are normally expected. (For guidance on study techniques see the Undergraduate Handbook.)
2 POL3021
General Regulation
Students should refer to the current Department of Politics Undergraduate Handbook for guidance on regulations. Please note that students are required to perform satisfactorily in all components of assessment (all elements of assessed coursework and examinations) before credits can be awarded for a module.
Seminar Attendance
Attendance at seminars is compulsory. It is your responsibility to ensure that you sign the attendance sheet. Where possible, if you are unable to attend a seminar you should attempt to inform the Undergraduate Office in advance.
Recommended Reading: ‘core texts’ and general texts
Please note that, as a matter of departmental policy, the library does not normally hold sufficient library copies of module texts that are 'recommended for purchase' to guarantee easy access. The following are all available in paperback editions (including the Cuban editions but you may have to go to Cuba to get them!).
‗Core texts‘ (for the purposes of marking criteria)
Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) is very usefully thematic, and the best of the 50th anniversary studies.
Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield) is pretty comprehensive and up-to-date.
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) puts the analysis of Cuba in the contexts of democratisation and globalisation theories, before discussing the building of revolutionary Cuba, the post-Soviet crisis, and the current prospects.
Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) by a serious US Cuba scholar, offering a compendium of potted answers to about 150 questions with a wide and revelant coverage – a good place to get an orientation on many issues.
Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) (in the library in several copies, but not on sale in the UK) is a focused collection of essays by Cuban academics on key topics in the module
Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) is a sympathetic and critical analysis covering many of our topics.
Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) is also a sympathetic and critical analysis covering many of our topics (look out for a 2009 edition).
Camona Baez, A. (2004) State resistance to globalisation in Cuba (Pluto Press) is the most comprehensive analysis in English of Cuba‘s survival strategy since the collapse of the Soviet bloc (you can skip the theoretical introduction if you wish).
Other general texts and collections referred to in the first sections of seminar reading lists:
Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) is an extensive collection of extracts and short pieces that cover many topics, but less on the most recent period.
Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (Eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) contains much useful material as well as discussing a concept much deployed in debate about Cuba.
Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) is a detailed historical survey by a veteran and sympathetic student of the Cuban Revolution.
3 POL3021
Kapcia, A. (2000) Cuba: island of dreams (Berg) is a richly detailed analysis of the originality of the forces and ideas driving the process of the revolution in Cuba.
Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) covers many key topics and is accessible as an Ebook!
Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) (in the library in several copies) is a wide-ranging handbook of facts and arguments about the Cuban Revolution and its progress, originally written as a reference book for Cuban trade union activists.
Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life (Penguin) is in effect the autobiography and contains material on many of the topics covered in the module.
A Note on Reading
Cuba is different, not only because of the peculiarities of its revolution in the 1950s, but, obviously, because it has been subject to relentless US efforts since to overthrow its government, before, during and since its status as a solitary Soviet ally in the western hemisphere. One consequence you have to be aware of is that the literature on Cuba, including the academic literature, is often engaging directly in the battle over Cuba, or is indirectly aligned or align-able with the parties in that battle, or at least is tackling questions defined by that battle. You must bear this in mind when trying to form your own judgements, and also bear in mind the disproportionate volumes of pro- and anti-Cuba material available in the English language.
Another Note on Reading
The library has purchased dozens of new copies of books especially for this new module, including some in English from Cuban publishers. The lists below also contain references to other books in the library on Cuba, and there are others to be found. Some will also be in demand from students in Hispanic Studies, so you are asked to be responsible and not hog books unnecessarily!
Apart from books, journals, there are other sources of material for this module. In essays you should show familiarity with appropriate material from the MOLE site, as well as with material from the reading lists.
The Library electronic resources page for the module provides links to e-offprint chapters and most of the journal articles listed below
MOLE
The MOLE site for this module contains dozens of primary documents and module-specific notes for seminars that you should make use of, especially in essay preparation.
Internet
The following websites are all useful, but even more than in the case of written sources you need to keep your critical wits about you. There are of course many more sites that you can look at, especially if you can read Spanish!
Many sites will offer material useful in several seminars, so remember these lists when preparing for classes. This list is organised as follows:
Cuban official sites US official sites UK and EU official sites Academic and university-based sites Pressure group etc sites The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), and the Venezuela alliance
Cuban official sites
The Cuban government has its English site at http://www.cubagob.cu/ingles/default.htm The Cuban Office of National Statistics has tables with titles etc in English at
4 POL3021 http://www.one.cu/ The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations site is at http://www.cubaminrex.cu/english/index.asp and its human rights pages begin at http://www.cubaminrex.cu/CDH/62cdh/Ingles/Index.htm Cuban News Agency (in English) http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/ Prensa Latina – Cuban news agency in English http://www.plenglish.com/ Cuba UN Mission site with Raul Castro speeches http://embacuba.cubaminrex.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=8219 The Cuban site dedicated to the case of the ‗Miami Five‘ and anti-terrorism is at http://www.antiterroristas.cu/ Cuba‘s anti-blockade site is at http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=1012 The Cuban Constitution in English is at http://www.asanac.gov.cu/espanol/const.ingles The Communist Party of Cuba publishes the daily Granma newspaper with an English site at http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/ingles/index.html and an international Granma edition in English has a website at http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html an official web news and opinion site, with limited English material (mostly key speeches) is at http://www.cubadebate.cu/ The Central de Trabajadores de Cuba (CTC) which is the equivalent of the TUC publishes a newspaper Trabajadores which has a website with an English section at http://www.trabajadores.cubaweb.cu/index_english.htm Cuba Socialista, a politics and theory magazine of the Communist Party of Cuba has an English site at http://www.cubasocialista.cu/indexeng.html A list of government statements and speeches, many in English, is at http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/index.html
US official sites
The US State Department‘s Cuba pages are at http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/c2461.htm The US Interests Section in Havana, the quasi-embassy (known as SINA in the Cuban literature) has a site at http://havana.usinterestsection.gov/ President George W Bush announced a new initiative on Cuba in 2002 http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/10323.htm In 2003 Bush then set up the ‗Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba‘ whose 2004 and 2006 reports (referred to as Plan Bush in Cuba) and other material are at http://www.cafc.gov/index.htm
UK, EU and UN official sites
UK Foreign Office Cuba pages including current policy http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394 365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1029494280307 European Union Cuba site including Common Position http://ec.europa.eu/comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=cu&status=new Text, and signers, of Commons Early Day Motion 1959 on Cuba and the EU Common Position http://edmi.parliament.uk/edmi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=30440%09%09%09%09%09%09%09&SESSION= 875 The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean offers much comparative and other data in English at http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN
5 POL3021
Academic and university-based sites
The International Institute for the Study of Cuba at London Metropolitan University, with an online journal and documents from pubic seminars, and links, is at http://www.cubastudies.org Cuba Research Forum (University of Nottingham) links page is at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hispanic/CRF/Cuba/links_page.htm The Center for International Relations‘ Cuba Program, supportive of a new US policy, with a lot of material by Wayne Smith the former US Head of Interests in Cuba, is at http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/cubainthenews/Wayne%20Smith.htm Lexington Institute Cuba pages including Philip Peters blog and articles, and very valuable reports on the Special Period (see ‗Research Products‘) http://lexingtoninstitute.org/cuba.shtml The National Security Archive at George Washington University has very important US government documentation secured by the Freedom of Information Act including: On Bay of Pigs http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/index.html Missile Crisis materials http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/index.htm On Kennedy‘s secret plans to reach an accommodation with Cuba after missile crisis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/index.htm On Cuba in Angola http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB67/ On Luis Posada Carilles (for week 9) http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm
The Latin America Network Information Center based at the University of Austin in Texas has extensive Cuba links at http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/ it includes a big database of speeches of Fidel Castro at http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro.html and the papers and proceedings of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy are at http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/ The Cuba On-Line database is based in the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies of the University of Miami http://cuba.sis.miami.edu/
Pressure group etc sites
The British Cuba Solidarity Campaign has news updates and other material at http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/ The Cuba pages of the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations start at http://www.cfr.org/region/213/cuba.html Project Infomed Cuba Solidarity Web Site (US) http://www.cubasolidarity.net/ Afrocubaweb has a stack of political and cultural articles and material at http://afrocubaweb.com/ Global Exchange is a pressure group seeking normal relations with Cuba, at http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/cuba/ A US site supporting the Miami Five is at http://www.freethefive.org/ Cuban American National Foundation (once the main US anti-Cuba exile group) http://www.canf.org/2005/principal-ingles.htm Cuban Liberty Council (hardline breakaway from CANF) press releases http://www.consejoporlalibertaddecuba.org/PP/PartesdePrensa.htm Cuban Committee on Human Rights, one of the main opposition groups in Cuba the 1990s: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/ccpdh.html Assembly to Promote Civil Society, umbrella opposition group in Cuba: http://www.asambleasociedadcivilcuba.info/Asamblea/LaAsambleaEN.htm Cubanet (anti-Cuba US site) http://www.cubanet.org/cubanews.html International Committee for Democracy in Cuba, Czech-based international right-wing lobby
6 POL3021 http://www.icdcprague.org/ Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS) 2008 report section on Cuba http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2008eng/Chap4.c.eng.htm Human Rights Watch, Cuba pages http://www.hrw.org/en/americas/cuba Amnesty International‘s most recent (2008) report on Cuba http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/cuba/report-2008
There are other weblinks on civil rights in the Seminar 8 list below
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), and the Venezuela alliance
The English site of the official Venezuelan news agency is at http://www.abn.info.ve/ver08.php?lee=17 An independent Venezuelan site in English has material on ALBA at http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/339 The British-based Venezuela Solidarity Campaign is at www.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk UK-based Bolivia Information Forum is at http://www.boliviainfoforum.org.uk/
SEMINARS
The following reading lists are quite extensive, and intended to support both seminar, essay and project module work. Specific seminar reading requirements will be communicated during the module The lists are arranged roughly as follows: relevant parts of core or general texts; specialist texts; journal articles and other sources, with some sub-division where appropriate by topic. Some relevant topics and events are listed before the reading lists, as are key questions.
REMEMBER TO USE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS ON MOLE AND THE INTERNET
The seminars are organised into five groups as follows:
NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND A NEW SOCIETY (weeks 1 to 4) THE END OF THE SOVIET ERA (weeks 5 & 6) US-CUBA POST-COLD WAR RELATIONS (weeks 8 & 9) CUBA, LATIN AMERICA AND C21 INTERNATIONALISM (weeks 10 & 11) CUBA’S ‘JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN’ (Raúl Castro) (week 12)
NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND A NEW SOCIETY
Week 1 ‗The Triumph of the Revolution’: Cubanía and the July 26 Movement
Origins of Cuban nationalism and ‗cubanía‘. José Martí and the independence wars. US intervention and the origins of the Guantanamo base. Dependency and revolt in the neo-colonial era. The dress rehearsal – the short-lived defeat of the Machado dictatorship. The 1940 constitution. The 2nd Batista dictatorship.
Fidel, the Martí ‗centenarians‘ and the July 26 attack on the Moncada barracks. ‗History will absolve me‘ and the ‗Moncada Programme‘ of reforms. The rebel army‘s Granma landing and the guerrilla war. ‗Triumph of the Revolution‘ 1958/9.
Why does Cuban nationalism have a revolutionary character? What was the social and political outlook of the rebellion against Batista?
Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) esp Chs 1, 4 Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section ‗Cuba before 1959‘
7 POL3021
Chomsky, A. (2010) A History of the Cuban Revolution (Wiley) Kapcia, A. (2000) Cuba: island of dreams (Berg) Chs 1 & 3 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Chs 3 & 4 Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) Ch 3 (ebook) Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Chs 3-5 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Parts III & IV García Luis, J. (ed. (2001) Cuban Revolution Reader: a Documentary History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution (Ocean Press) Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life chs 4-6
Castro Ruz, F. (1953) History will absolve me for an English translation see MOLE www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm Reid-Henry, S. (2009) Fidel and Che: a revolutionary friendship (Sceptre) Farber, S. (2006) The origins of the Cuban Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) Raby, D.L (2006) Democracy and revolution: Latin America and socialism today (Pluto Press) Ch 4 Anderson, J. L. (1997) Che Guevara: a revolutionary life (New York, Grove) Sawyer, M. Q. (2005) Racial politics in post-revolutionary Cuba (Cambridge UP) Ch 2 Kapcia, A. (2005) Havana: the Making of Cuban Culture (Berg) Ch 2 Cirules, E. (2004) The Mafia in Havana (Ocean Press) Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) ebook Choy, A., Chui, G. and Siu Wong, M. (2005) Our History is still being written: the story of three Chinese-Cuban generals in the Cuban Revolution. (Pathfinder)
Henessey, A. (1963) ‗The roots of Cuban nationalism‘ International Journal of Cuba Studies 2/1 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-3/classic-paper/the-roots-of-cuban-nationalism.cfm de la Fuente, A. (1999) ‗Myths of racial democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912‘ Latin American Research Review 34/3 (ejournal) Lievesley, G. ‗Cuba, the USA and Guantánamo Bay: the collision between national sovereignty and imperial ambition‘ Contemporary Politics 12/1 2006 Schoultz, L. ‗Blessings of Liberty: The United States and the Promotion of Democracy in Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 2004 (ejournal) Morley, M. H. (1982) ‗The U.S. imperial state in Cuba 1952-1958: policymaking and capitalist interests‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 14/1. (ejournal) Farber, S. ‗The Cuban Communists in the early stages of the Cuban Revolution: revolutionaries or reformists‘ Latin American Research Review 18/1 1983 (ejournal) Pollitt, B.H. (1984) ‗The Cuban sugar economy and the Great Depression‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 3/2 (ejournal) Suchliki, J. ‗Stirrings of Cuban nationalism: the student generation of 1930‘ Journal of Inter-American Studies 10/3 1968 (ejournal) Whitney, R. (2000) ‗The architect of the Cuban state: Fulgencio Batista and populism in Cuba, 1937-1940‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 32/2 (ejournal) Stoner, L. (2003) ‗Militant Heroines and the Consecration of the Patriarchal State: The Glorification of Loyalty, Combat, and National Suicide in the Making of Cuban National Identity‘ Cuban Studies 34 (ejournal) Miller, N. (2003) ‗The absolution of history: uses of the past in Castro‘s Cuba‘ Journal of Contemporary History 38 (ejournal) Quinn, K. ‗Cuban historiography in the 1960s: revisionists, revolutionaries and the nationalist past‘ Bulletin of Latin American Studies 26/3, 2007 (ejournal)
Week 2 Polarisation
The US response and the start of the embargo and the ‗dirty war‘. Land reform, nationalisation, planning and the idea of the ‗new man‘. Radicalisation and the turn to the Soviet camp. Terror attacks, assassination attempts, and the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) invasion 1961. The Cuban Missile (October) Crisis 1962.
Why did land reform turn into a more general programme of nationalisation? Why did Cuba turn to the ‘socialist camp’?
There is important US government material at the National Security Archive site (see links pages for details)
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 3
8 POL3021
Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) Ch 5. Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Ch 5 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Part VII Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Ch 6 Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Chs 5-7 Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section 1959-1991 ‗US-Cuba‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life chs 10-13
García Luis, J. (ed. (2001) Cuban Revolution Reader: a Documentary History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution (Ocean Press) Part VII Yaffe, H. (2009) Che Guevara: the economics of revolution (Palgrave) Reid-Henry, S. (2009) Fidel and Che: a revolutionary friendship (Sceptre) Farber, S. (2006) The origins of the Cuban Revolution (University of North Carolina Press) Guevara, C. (1990) Economics and politics in the transition to socialism (Pathfinder) Diéguez, A.Z. (2007) Blockade: the longest economic siege in history (Editorial Capitan San Luis) Kaplowitz, D.R. (1998) Anatomy of a failed embargo: U.S. sanctions against Cuba (Lynne Rienner) Schwab, P. (1998) Cuba: confronting the U.S. embargo (Macmillan) Hennessey, A. & Lambie, G. (1993) The Fractured blockade: West European-Cuban relations during the Revolution (Macmillan) Smith, W. (1987) The closest of enemies: A personal and diplomatic account of U.S.-Cuban relations since 1957 (Norton) eoffprint Editorial Capitan San Luis (2005) Cuba the Untold History (Editorial Capitan San Luis) Arboleya, J. (2002) The Cuban counterrevolution (Editorial José Martí) Escalante, F. (2004) The Cuba Project: CIA Covert Operations 1959-62 (Ocean Press) Escalante, F. (2006) Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro (Ocean Press) Franklin, J. (1997) Cuba and the United States (Ocean Press) (‗Background‘) White, M. J. (2001) The Kennedys and Cuba: the Declassified Documentary History (Ivan R Dee)
Blight, J.G. and Brenner, P. (2002) Sad and luminous days: Cuba’s struggle with the superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Rowman and Littlefield) Higgins, T. (1987) The perfect failure : Kennedy, Eisenhower and the CIA at the Bay of Pigs (Norton) Rodríguez, J.C. (1999) The Bay of Pigs and the CIA (Ocean Press) Kornbluh, P. (1998) Bay of Pigs Declassified: the Secret CIA Report on the Invasion of Cuba (The New Press) Castro, F. & Ramon Fernandez, J. (2001) Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs: Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas (Pathfinder Press) Landau,S. (2006) ‗U.S. media images of postrevolutionary Cuba shaped by government policy and commercial grammar‘ Latin American Perspectives 33/5. (ejournal) Yaffe, H. (2009) ‗Che Guevara's enduring legacy not the foco but the theory of socialist construction‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Brenner, P. (1990) ‗Cuba and the Missile Crisis‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 22/1. (ejournal)
Luxenberg, A. H. ‗Did Eisenhower push Castro into the arms of the Soviets?‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 30/1 1988 (ejournal) Helwege, A. (1989) ‗Three socialist experiences in Latin America: surviving US economic pressure‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 8/2. (ejournal) Gleijeses, P. ‗Ships in the night: the CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 27/1 1995 (ejournal) Blackburn, R. ‗Prologue to the Cuban Revolution‘ New Left Review 21 (first series) 1963 (ejournal) Landau, S. ‗Cuba: the present reality‘ New Left Review 9 (first series) 1961 (ejournal) Fruchter, N. & Hall, S. ‗Notes on the Cuban dilemma‘ New Left Review 9 (first series) 1961 (ejournal) Dellinger, D. ‗Cuba: America‘s lost plantations‘ New Left Review 8 (first series) 1961 (ejournal)
Week 3 Building a New Society
The ‗conquests‘ of the revolution: civil rights, land reform, and the educational and welfare programmes. Internationalism: ‗combat internationalism‘ supporting guerrillas in Latin America and anti-colonialism and apartheid in Africa; early civil and medical internationalism. Foreign policy conflict with the USSR.
What were the ‘conquests’ of the revolution? What was the international role of Cuba in the Cold War?
9 POL3021
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 3 Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) ch 2, ch 5 Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) Ch 4 (ebook) Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Chs 6 & 7 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Chs 4 & 5 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Parts V & 7 Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a revolution in motion (Zed Books) Chs 1 & 3, ch 6 Kapcia, A. (2000) Cuba: island of dreams (Berg) Chs 2 & 4 Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield) Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) sections 1959-91 ‗Domestic‘, ‗Cuba in the World‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life ch 15
Gleijeses, P. (2002) Conflicting missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill) Sawyer, M. Q. (2005) Racial politics in post-revolutionary Cuba (Cambridge UP) Ch 3 Choy, A., Chui, G., and Sío Wong (2005) Our history is still being written: the story of three Chinese-Cuban generals inthe Cuban Revolution (Pathfinder) Part II and Appendices Sinclair, A. (1998) Che Guevera (Fontana) Anderson, J. L. (1997) Che Guevara: a revolutionary life (New York, Grove) García Luis, J. (ed. (2001) Cuban Revolution Reader: a Documentary History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution (Ocean Press) Chs 1-26, 35, 37 Blight, J.G. and Brenner, P. (2002) Sad and luminous days: Cuba’s struggle with the superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Rowman and Littlefield)
Saney, I. (2009) ‗Homeland of Humanity: Internationalism within the Cuban Revolution‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 Harris, R. (2009) ‗Cuban internationalism, Che Guevara, and the survival of Cuba‘s socialist regime‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/3. (ejournal) Kronenberg, C.W. (2009) ‗Manifestations of humanism in revolutionary Cuba: Che and the principle of universality‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Gleijeses, P. ‗The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 29 1997 (ejournal) Gleijeses, P. (1996) ‗Cuba's first venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 28/1. (ejournal) Gleijeses, P. (2006) Moscow‘s Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988 Journal of Cold War Studies, 8/2 Spring. (ejournal) Saney, I. ‗African Stalingrad: the Cuban revolution, internationalism, and the end of apartheid‘ Latin American Perspectives. 33/5 2006 (ejournal) Kronenberg, C.W. (2009) ‗Manifestations of Humanism in Revolutionary Cuba: Che and the Principle of Universality‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Gott, R. ‗Che Guevara and the Congo‘ New Left Review 220 (first series) 1995 (ejournal) Brittain, V. ‗Cuba in Africa‘ New Left Review 17 (second series) 2002 (ejournal) Brittain, V. ‗Cuba and Southern Africa‘ New Left Review 172 (first series) 1988 (ejournal) Garcia Marquez, G. ‗Operation Carlota‘ New Left Review 101/2 (first series) 1977 (ejournal)
Childs, M. D. (1995) ‗An historical critique of the emergence and evolution of Ernesto Che Guevara's foco theory‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 27/3. (ejournal) Petras, J. (1998) ‗Che Guevara and contemporary revolutionary movements‘ Latin American Perspectives 25/4. (ejournal) Guevara, C ‗Vietnam must not stand alone‘ New Left Review 43 (first series) 1967 (ejournal) Harris, R. ‗Reflections on Che Guevara‘s legacy‘ Latin American Perspectives 25/4 1998 (ejournal) Gonzales, M. ‗The culture of the heroic guerrilla: the impact of Cuba in the sixties‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 3/2 1984 (ejournal) Yaffe, H. (2009) ‗Che Guevara's enduring legacy not the foco but the theory of socialist construction‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal)
Randall. M. ‗‖We need a government of men and women …!‖ Notes on the second National Congress of the Federacion de Mujeres Cubanas, November 25-29 1974 Latin American Perspectives 2/4 1975 (ejournal)
10 POL3021
King, M. ‗Cuba‘s attack on women‘s second shift 1974-76 Latin American Perspectives 4/1 1977 (ejournal) Fuente, de la, A. ‗Race, national discourse, and politics in Cuba: an overview‘ Latin American Perspectives 25/3 1998 (ejournal) Karl, T. ‗Work incentives in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 2/4 1975 (ejournal)
Week 4 Evolution of Political Institutions
Creation of the Cuban Communist Party. Comecon membership (1972) and ‗Sovietisation‘. Institutionalisation: one-party state Constitution and Popular Power (Poder Popular) (1976). The electoral and legislative systems. Rousseau, the ‗imperative mandate‘ and accountability. ‗Mass Organisations‘ and NGOs. Reform in the 1990s.
What kind of democracy does Cuba practice? What avenues of political participation are open to the people?
Cuba‘s Constitution is at http://www.asanac.gov.cu/espanol/const.ingles
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 3 Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) Ch 3 Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) Ch 5 (ebook) Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Ch 2 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Ch 6 Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) Ch 4 Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section 1959-91 ‗Domestic‘
Raby, D.L (2006) Democracy and revolution: Latin America and socialism today (Pluto Press) Ch 4 Roman, P. (2003) Peoples Power: Cuba’s Experience with Representative Government (Rowman and Littlefield) Arnold August, A. (1999) Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections (Editorial José Martí) Griffiths, J. & Griffiths, P. (eds.) (1979) Cuba : the second decade (Writers and Readers) Part I Méndez Tovar, C. (1997) Democracy in Cuba? (Editorial José Martí) Harnecker, M. (1980) Cuba: dictatorship or democracy? (Lawrence Hill) Carmelo Mesa-Lago (1978, 2nd edn.) Cuba in the 1970s: Pragmatism and Institutionalization (University of New Mexico Press) Carollee Bengelsdorf (1994) The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality (Oxford University Press) Eckstein, S. (2003 2nd edn) Back from the future: Cuba under Castro (Princeton University Press) García Luis, J. (ed. (2001) Cuban Revolution Reader: a Documentary History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution (Ocean Press) Chs 27-29
Roman, P. (1993) ‗Representative government in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 20/1 (ejournal) Martinez Heredia, F. & Pierce, J.(1991) ‗Cuban socialism: prospects and challenges‘ Latin American Perspectives 18/2 (ejournal) Azieri, M. (1980) The institutionalization of the Cuban state: a political perspective Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 22/3 1980 (ejournal) Valdes, N.P. (1975) ‗The Cuban Revolution: organisation and bureaucracy‘ Latin American Perspectives 2/4 (ejournal)
Roman, P. (1995) ‗Workers Parliaments in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 22/4 1995 (ejournal) Edelstein, J.C. (1995) ‗The future of democracy in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 22/4 Evenson, D. (2009) ‗Opening paths to renewed popular participation‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Casal, L. (1975) ‗On Popular Power: the organisation of the Cuban state during the period of transition‘ Latin American Perspectives 2/4 (ejournal) Nápoles Rodríguez, E. (2009) ‗Participation and decision making in local spaces in Cuba: notes for a debate on the challenges facing popular power after 30 years‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Roman, P. (1997) ‗Reviewing the Cuban Revolution‘ Latin American Perspectives 24/5 (ejournal)
11 POL3021
Barkin, D. (1975)‗Popular participation and the dialectics of Cuban development‘ Latin American Perspectives 2/4 (ejournal)
Leogrande, W.M. (1980) ‗The Communist Party of Cuba since the First Congress‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 12/2. (ejournal) LeoGrande, W.M. (1979) ‗Party development in Cuba‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 21/4 (ejournal) Harenandez Suarez, G. & Yanez, A.(1991) ‗Political leadership in Cuba: background and current projections‘ Latin American Perspectives 18/2 (ejournal) Aguirre, B.O. (2002) ‗Social Control in Cuba‘ Latin American Politics and Society 44/2. (ejournal) O‘Bryan, J. and Otero, G. (2002) ‗Cuba in transition? The civil sphere‘s challenge to Castro‘ Latin American Politics and Society 44/4. (ejournal) Petras, J.F. & Fitzgerald, F. (1988) ‗Authoritarianism and democracy in the transition to socialism‘ Latin American Perspectives 15/1 (ejournal)
THE END OF THE SOVIET ERA
Week 5 Collapse of the Soviet Bloc and the Special Period
The ‗Rectification‘ campaign of the mid-1980s. The collapse of the ‗socialist camp‘ and the ‗Special Period in Peacetime‘ in the 1990s. Scale of the crisis. Economic reforms: marketisation, dollarisation, foreign investment, tourism and knowledge economy niches in the global marketplace. The impact on race and gender equality, and the distribution of wealth and welfare in Cuba. Dollar remittances, access to tourist dollars, the dual currency and the black market. The emergence of the ‗new rich‘.
Did the reforms Cuba undertook to overcome the economic crisis signal a transition to capitalism? What was the impact of the Special Period measures on social equality?
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 4 Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield). Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) sections 1959-91 ‗Domestic‘, 1991-2006 ‗Domestic‘ Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) ch 7 Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (Eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life chs 16-18 Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí), Chs 2, 3, 5, 7 Camona Baez, A. (2004) State resistance to globalisation in Cuba (Pluto Press) Chs 3 & 4 Bell Lara, J. (2002) Globalization and the Cuban revolution (Editorial José Martí) Ch 2 Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Ch 8 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Chs 5 & 7 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Part VIII Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Chs 1 & 3 Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) Chs 7, 8 (ebook)
Economic reforms Monreal, P. (2002) Development prospects in Cuba: an agenda in the making (Institute of Latin American Studies) Part I Eckstein, S. (2003 2nd edn) Back from the future: Cuba under Castro (Princeton University Press) Fitzgerald, F. T. (1994) The Cuban Revolution in crisis : from managing socialism to managing Survival (Monthly Review Press) Choy, A., Chui, G., and Sío Wong (2005) Our history is still being written: the story of three Chinese-Cuban generals inthe Cuban Revolution (Pathfinder) Part III García Luis, J. (ed. (2001) Cuban Revolution Reader: a Documentary History of 40 Years of the Cuban Revolution (Ocean Press) Ch 33-4, 38 And see the relevant Philip Peters Cuba ‗Research Products‘ at http://lexingtoninstitute.org/cuba.shtml
Zimbalist, A.(1992) ‗Teetering on the brink: Cuba‘s current economic and political crisis‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 24/2 (ejournal)
12 POL3021
Carranza Valdes & Weber, C. (1991) ‗The current situation in Cuba and the process of change‘ Latin American Perspectives 18/2 (ejournal) Perez-Lopez, J. F. (1997) ‗The Cuban economy in the age of hemispheric integration‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39/3 1997 (ejournal) Schulz, D. (1993) ‗Can Castro Survive?‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 35/1 (ejournal) Valdes, J.C. and Weber, C. (1991) ‗The current situation in Cuba and the process of change‘ Latin American Perspectives 18/2 (ejournal) Perez-Lopez, J.F. (1991) ‗Bringing the Cuban Economy into Focus: Conceptual and Empirical Challenges‘ Latin American Research Review 26/3. (ejournal)
Garfield, R. and Santana, S. (1997) ‗The Impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba' American Journal of Public Health. 87/1, (ejournal) Eckstein, S. (2003) ‗Diasporas and dollars: transnational ties and the transformation of Cuba‘ at http://web.mit.edu/CIS/www/migration/pubs/rrwp/16_diasporas.pdf Ritter, R.M. (2000) ‗The tax regime for micro-enterprises in Cuba' Cepal Review 71. (UN document available on MOLEhill) Pollitt, B.H. (2004) ‗The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Sugar Economy‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 36. (ejournal)
Bain, M.J. (2005) ‗Cuba–Soviet relations in the Gorbachev era‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 37. (ejournal) Fitzgerald, F.T. (1989) ‗The reform of the Cuban economy, 1976-86: organisation, incentives and patterns of behaviour‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 21/2 (ejournal) Rosenberg, J. (1992) ‗Cuba's free-market experiment: los mercados libres campesinos, 1980-1986‘ Latin American Research Review 27/3. (ejournal) Packenham, R.A. (1986) ‗Capitalist dependency and socialist dependence: the case of Cuba‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 28/1 1986 (ejournal) Mathey, K. (1989) ‗Recent trends in Cuban housing policies and the revival of the microbrigade movement‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 8/1. (ejournal) Perez-Lopez, J.F. (1991) ‗Swimming against the tide: implications for Cuba of Soviet and Eastern European reforms in foreign economic relations‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 33/2 1991 (ejournal)
Social impact
Lopez Vigil, M (1999) Cuba: Neither Heaven nor Hell (EPICA) esp Chs I and V Berg, M, Carnell, P., and Fountain, A. (eds) (2007) Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island (CCC Press) Sawyer, M. Q. (2005) Racial politics in post-revolutionary Cuba (Cambridge UP) Chs 5 & 6 Perez Sarduy, P. and J. Stubbs (Eds.) (2000) Afro-Cuban voices: on race and identity in contemporary Cuba (University Press of Florida) Pearson, R. (1999) Economic reform and women's employment in Cuba Tulchin, S et al (Eds) (2005) Changes in Cuban Society since the Nineties free book download from Woodrow Wilson Centre at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1425&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=7505 And see the relevant Philip Peters Cuba ‗Research Products‘ at http://lexingtoninstitute.org/cuba.shtml
Domínguez, M.I. (2009) ‗Cuban social policy: principal spheres and targeted social groups‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Wilson, M. (2009) ‗No tenemos viandas! Cultural ideas of scarcity and need‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 2/1. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-3/science-and-society/no-tenemos-viandas-cultural- ideas-of-scarcity-and-need.cfm Uriarte-Gastón, M (2004) ‗Social Policy Responses to Cuba's Economic Crisis of the 1990s‘ Cuban Studies 35 2004 (ejournal) Mesa-Lago, C. (2005) ‘Social and economic problems in Cuba during the crisis and subsequent recovery‘ Cepal Review 8. (UN document available on MOLEhill) Burchardt, H-J (2002) ‗Contours of the future: the new social dynamics in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 29/3 (ejournal) Dilla, H. (2000) ‗The Cuban experiment: economic reform, social restructuring, and politics‘ Latin American Perspectives 27/1 (ejournal)
13 POL3021
Ritter, A.R.M. (1998) ‗Entrepreneurship, microenterprise and public policy in Cuba: promotion, containment or asphyxiation?‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40/2 (ejournal) Dilla, H. (1999) ‗Comrades and investors: the uncertain transition in Cuba‘ in Socialist Register
Baron, G. (2010) ‗The illusion of equality: machismo and Cuban cinema of the Revolution‘ Bulletin of Latin American Studies 29/3 (ejournal) Perierra, A.C. (2009) ‗En casa: women and households in post-soviet Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (ejournal) Safa, H. (2009) ‗Hierarchies and Household Change in Postrevolutionary Cuba‘, Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Daniels, P. (2009) ‗Womens labour links – 2009 interview with Cuban Womens‘ Federation representatives‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 2/1. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-3/civil-society- collaboration/womens-labour-links.cfm Stout, N. M. (2009) ‗Feminists, queers and critics: debating the Cuban sex trade‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (ejournal) Pearson, R., (1997) ‗Renegotiating the Reproductive Bargain: Gender Analysis of Economic Transition in Cuba in the 1990s‘ Development and Change 28/4, (ejournal) Lutjens, S.L. (1995) Reading between the lines: women, the state, and rectification in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 22/1. (ejournal) de la Fuente, A. (1998) ‗Race, national discourse, and politics in Cuba: an overview‘ Latin American Perspectives 25/3. (ejournal) De la Fuenta, A. (2009) ‗The new Afro-Cuban cultural movement and the debate on race in contemporary Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (ejournal) Allen, J. A. (2009) ‗Looking Black at Revolutionary Cuba‘ , Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Fernandes, S. (2003) 'Fear of a Black Nation: Local Rappers, Transnational Crossings and State Power in Contemporary Cuba', Anthropological Quarterly, 76/4 (ejournal) Adams, H., (2004) 'Fighting an Uphill Battle: Race, Politics, and Institutionalization in Cuba' Latin American Research Review 39/1 (ejournal) Tickner, A. B. (2008) ‗Aquí en el Ghetto: Hip-hop in Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico‘ Latin American Politics and Society 50/3. (ejournal) Holbraad, M. (2004) ‗Religious ―Speculation‖ : The Rise of Ifa´ Cults and Consumption in Post-Soviet Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 36 (ejournal) http://afrocubaweb.com/ has loads of material on race in Cuba
Week 6 Emerging from the Special Period in the C21
Re-mobilization: the Elian case and the Battle of Ideas programmes. Economic but not social recovery? De- dollarisation, tackling inequality and black marketeering. Restructuring the sugar industry. The ‗energy revolution‘. Avoiding dependency on a single market, securing new trade partners.
What steps have been taken to reverse the inequalities of the Special Period? How have the social ‘conquests’ emerged from the Special Period?
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 4 Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield). Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section after Fidel under Raul ‗Domestic‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life ch 26 Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) ch 7 Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) Chs 3, 5, 7, 8 Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Ch 8 Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Cs 1 & 6 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Ch 7 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Part VIII Camona Baez, A. (2004) State resistance to globalisation in Cuba (Pluto Press) Chs 4 & 5 Kapcia, A. (2000) Cuba: island of dreams (Berg) Conclusion Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí)
14 POL3021
Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (Eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) eoffprint Klepak, H. P (2005) Cuba's military 1990-2005: revolutionary soldiers during counter-revolutionary times (Palgrave) (eoffprint) Choy, A., Chui, G., and Sío Wong (2005) Our history is still being written: the story of three Chinese-Cuban generals inthe Cuban Revolution (Pathfinder) Part III Suárez Salazar, L (1999) Cuba : isolation or reinsertion in a changed world? (Editorial José Martí) Bell Lara, J. (2002) Globalization and the Cuban revolution (Editorial José Martí) Ch 3 Monreal, P. (2002) Development prospects in Cuba: an agenda in the making (Institute of Latin American Studies) Parts 2 & 3
Ludlam, S. (2009) ‗Cuba at 50: what about the workers?‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/Special (ejournal) Kapcia, A. (2009) ‗Lessons of the Special Period: Learning to March Again‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Morris, E. (2009) ‗Cuba‘s new relationship with foreign capital: economic policy-making since 1990‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (ejournal) Aponte-Garcia, M. (2009) ‗Foreign Investment and Trade in Cuban Development: A 50-Year Reassessment with Emphasis on the Post-1990‘ Period Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/4. (ejournal) Sánchez Egozcue, J.M & Triana Cordoví, J. (2008) ‗An overview of the Cuban economy, the transformations underway and the prospective challenges it faces‘ Real Instituto Elcano Working Paper, (esp part 1) online at: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/Content?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/Elcano_in/Z onas_in/Latin+America/DT31-2008 Morris, E. (2007) ‗How exceptional is the Cuban economy?‘ in Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (Eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) eoffprint Xianglin, M. (2007) ‗Cuban reform and economic opening: retrospective and assessment‘ Latin American Perspectives 34/6. (ejournal) Meso-Largo, C. (2005) ‗Social and economic problems in Cuba during the crisis and subsequent recovery‘ CEPAL Review 86 August 2005 Online journal Uiarte-Gaston, M. (2004) ‗Social policy responses to Cuba‘s economic crisis of the 1990s‘ Cuban Studies 35 (ejournal) Centeno, M. (2004) ‗Society for Latin American Studies 2004 Plenary Lecture The Return of Cuba to Latin America: The End of Cuban Exceptionalism?‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 23/4 (ejournal) Brundenius, C. (2004) ‗Whither the Cuban economy after recovery? The reform process, upgrading strategies and the question of transition‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 (ejournal) Corrales, J. (2004) ‗The gatekeeper state: limited economic reforms and regime survival in Cuba, 1989-2002‘ Latin American Research Review 39/2. (ejournal) Pollitt, B.H. (2004) The Rise and Fall of the Cuban Sugar Economy‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 (ejournal) Ritter, R.M. and Rowe, R. (2002) Cuba: From ―Dollarization‖ to ‗‗Euroization‖ or “ Peso Reconsolidation‖? Latin American Politics And Society 44/2. (ejournal) Monreal, P. (2002) Development prospects in Cuba: an agenda in the making (Institute of Latin American Studies) Parts 2 & 3 Hamilton, D. (2002) ‗Whither Cuban socialism? The changing political economy of the Cuban Revolution Latin American Perspectives 29/3 (ejournal) Monreal, P. (2002) ‗Development as an unfinished affair: Cuba after the ―Great Adjustment‖ of the 1990s‘ Latin American Perspectives 29/3 (ejournal) Cole, K. (2002)‗Cuba: the process of socialist development‘ Latin American Perspectives 29/3 (ejournal) LeoGrande, W.M. & Thomas, J. M. (2004) ‗Cuba's Quest for Economic Independence‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 (ejournal)
Week 7 Reading Week
US-CUBA POST-COLD WAR RELATIONS
Week 8 Tightening the embargo
The 1990s US embargo legislation, Torricelli and Helms-Burton. The Cuban American lobby and presidential flip-flops. Restricting the President‘s discretion. ‗Extra-territoriality‘ and the EU Common Position. The UN position. Terrorism against Cuba, the Cuban Five and the terror culture in Miami. GW Bush‘s Commission for
15 POL3021
Assistance to a Free Cuba. Recognition of failure of US policy and changing opinion in Miami. Obama‘s measures on family links and travel. Prospect of lifting the embargo?
How did the Torricelli and Helms-Burton legislation intensify the US ‘blockade’ Why does terrorism remain a point of conflict between Cuba and the USA?
Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) Ch 10 Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Ch 5 Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Ch 8 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Chs 5 & 7 Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield). Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section 1991-2006 ‗US-Cuba‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life ch 26
Dominguez, J.I, Hernandez, R., and Barberia, L. (2011) Debating US-Cuban relations: shall we play ball? Routledge Pereze-Stable M. (2010) The United States and Cuba. Routledge Erikson, D.P. (2008) The Cuba wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the next generation (Bloomsbury Press) Erisman, M. H. and Kirk, J. M. (eds.) (2006) Redefining Cuban foreign policy: the impact of the "Special Period" (University Press of Florida) Hannet, P. & Vanderbrush, W. (2005) The Cuban embargo: the domestic politics of an American foreign policy (University of Pittsburg Press) Morley, M. & McGillion, C. (2002) Unfinished business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001 (Cambridge UP) eoffprint Erisman, M. H. (2000) Cuba's foreign relations in a post-Soviet world (University Press of Florida) Tulchin, S et al (eds) (2005) Changes in Cuban Society since the Nineties free download from Woodrow Wilson Centre at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Cuba.pdf Section 3
Republic of Cuba (2009) Report of Republic of Cuba to the UN on the necessity of ending the embargo http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/Informe2009/InformeIngles/indexing.html United Nations (2008) Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/93 United States Government Accounting Office (2007) Economic Sanctions: Agencies Face Competing Priorities in Enforcing the U.S. Embargo on Cuba, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0880.pdf Amnesty International (2009) The US Embargo Against Cuba: Its Impact on Economic and Social Rights http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/007/2009/en UNCHR (1995) Cuba: reforms, migration and international relations http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,WRITENET,,CUB,,3ae6a6ba0,0.html
Bolender, K. (2010) Voices from the Other Side: an Oral History of Terrorism against Cuba (Pluto Press) Editorial Capitan San Luis (2005) Cuba the Untold History (Editorial Capitan San Luis) Calvo Ospina, H. (2002) Bacardi: the hidden war (Pluto Press) Bardach, A.L. (2002) Cuba confidential: love and vengeance in Miami and Havana (Random House) Arboleya, J. (2002) The Cuban counterrevolution (Editorial José Martí) Alvarado, P. (2004) Confessions of Fraile: a real story of terrorism (Editorial Capitan San Luis) Miriam Elizade, R. & Baez, L (2003) The Dissidents; Cuban state security agents reveal the true story (Editora Politica) Horowitz, I.L. & Suchlicki, J. (2003 and other editions) Cuban communism 1959-2003 (Transaction) Editora Politica (2005) The perfect storm: the case of the Cuban five (Editora Politica) Perez, L.A. (2003) Cuba and the United States: ties of singular intimacy (University of Georgia Press) Federal Bureau of Investigation (1999) Terrorism in the United States 1999: 30 Years of Terrorism, a Special Retrospective Edition. (Washington: US Department of Justice) at http://www.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terror99.pdf Franklin, J. (1997) Cuba and the United States : a chronological history (Ocean Press) Arboleya, J. (1996) Havana-Miami: The US-Cuba migration conflict (Ocean Press)
16 POL3021
Lowenfeld, A.F. (1996) ‗Congress and Cuba: the Helms-Burton Act The American Journal of International Law 90/3 Council on Hemispheric Affairs (nd) ‗Helms-Burton Act: resurrecting the Iron Curtain‘ http://www.coha.org/helms-burton-act-resurrecting-the-iron-curtain/#more-13027 Blackburn R. (2000) ‗Cuba on the block‘ New Left Review 4 (second series) (ejournal) Hoffman, B. (1998) ‗The Helms-Burton law and its consequences for Cuba, the United States and Europe‘ http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/LASA98/Hoffmann.pdf Robinson, W. I. (1995) ‗Pushing polyarchy: the US-Cuba case and the Third World‘ Third World Quarterly 16/4 1995 (ejournal) Garfield, R. and Santana, S. (1997) ‗The Impact of the economic crisis and the US embargo on health in Cuba' American Journal of Public Health. 87/1, (ejournal) Dominguez, J.I. (1997) ‗US-Cuban relations: from the Cold War to the Colder War‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39/3 1997 (ejournal) Dominguez, J.I. ‗US-Cuban relations in the 1980s: issues and politics‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 27/1 1985 (ejournal) Castro Marino, S. M. (2002) ‗US-Cuban relations during the Clinton Administration‘ Latin American Perspectives 29/4 2002 (ejournal) Vanderbush, W. & Haney, P. J. (1999) ‗Policy toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration‘ Political Science Quarterly 114/3, (ejournal) Leogrande, W. M. (1997) ‗Enemies Evermore: US Policy towards Cuba after Helms-Burton‘ Journal of Latin American Studies, 29/1, 1997 (ejournal) Petras, J. & Morley, M. (1996) ‗Clinton's Cuba policy: two steps backward, one step forward’ Third World Quarterly 17/2 (ejournal) Falk, P.S. (1997) ‗The US-Cuba agenda: opportunity or stalemate‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39/1 (ejournal)
Schoultz, L. (2010) ‘Benevolent domination: the ideology of U.S. policy toward Cuba’ Cuba Studies 41 (ejournal) Leogrande, W.M., (1998) "From Havana to Miami: U.S. Cuba Policy as a Two-Level Game", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affair 40/ 1 1998 (ejournal) Eckstein, S., and Barberia, L., (2002) 'Grounding immigrant generations in history: Cuban Americans and their transnational ties', International MigrationReview Vol. 36, No. 3, (Fall, 2002) (ejournal) Vanderbush, W. & Haney, P. J. (1999) ‗The Role of Ethnic Interest Groups in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Case of the Cuban American National Foundation‘ International Studies Quarterly, 43/2, (ejournal) Bernell, D. (1994) ‗The curious case of Cuba in American foreign policy‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 36/2 (ejournal) Robbins, C. A. (1992) 'Dateline Washington: Cuban-America Clout' Foreign Policy 88, 1992. (ejournal)
Anderson, T. (2005) ‗Contesting "transition": the U.S. plan for a "Free Cuba"‘ Latin American Perspectives 32. (ejournal) Lutjens,S.L. (2006) ‗Cuba and the security frame‘ Latin American Perspectives 33/4. (ejournal) Lutjens, C. (2006) National Security, the State, and the Politics of U.S.-Cuba Educational Exchange‘ Latin American Perspectives 33 (ejournal) Castro Mariño, S. (2006) ‗The Bush Administration and academic and educational exchange between Cuba and the United States‘ Latin American Perspectives 33/5. (ejournal) Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report to the President May 20, 2004, http://2005- 2009.cafc.gov/rpt/2004/c18166.htm Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report to the President July, 2006, http://2005- 2009.cafc.gov/rpt/2006/c18232.htm Compact with the Cuban People http://www.cafc.gov/documents/organization/68854.pdf (and see some of the civil rights documents listed in the previous topic)
Ludlam, S. (2011) ‗Right-wing opposition as counter-revolution: the Cuban case‘ in F. Dominguez, G. Lievesley and S. Ludlam (eds.) The right-wing in the new politics of Latin America: reaction and revolt:. (Zed Books) Amnesty International (2010) ‗USA: the case of the ‘Cuban Five’ http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/093/2010 Perez, L.A. (2004) ‗Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of US Policy Toward Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 2004 (ejournal)
17 POL3021
Eckstein, S. (2009) The immigrant divide: how Cuban Americans changed the US and their homeland Routledge Eckstein, S. (2009) ‗Personal is political: the Cuban ethnic electoral policy cycle‘ Latin American Politics and Society 51/1. (ejournal) Ludlam, S. (2009) ‗The political culture of terrorism in Cuban Miami‘ The International Journal of Cuban Studies 2/1 at http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-3/viewpoint/the-political-culture-of-terrorism-in-cuban- miami.cfm Guerra, L. (2007) ‗Elián González and the ‗real Cuba‘ of Miami: visons of identity, exceptionality, and divinity‘ Cuban Studies 38 (ejournal) Landau, A. & Smith, W. (2001) 'Keeping things in perspective: Cuba and the Question of International Terrorism', http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/ipr/keepingthingsinperspective.pdf Adams, S., Harrison, S. & Smith, W. (2006) 'Sanctuary for Terrorists?', http://ciponline.org/cuba/ipr/SanctuaryForTerrorists.pdf Human Rights Watch (1993) Freedom of expression in Miami’s Cuban exile community. http://hrw.org/reports/1993/WR93/Hrw.htm
Wilkinson, S. (2008) ‗US Cuba policy after Bush: Succession or Transition?‘, International Journal of Cuban Studies, 1/1 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-1/articles/us-cuba-policy-after-bush-succession-or- transition.cfm Vorsermans, J. (2008) ‗Washington's relationship with Havana and Caracas‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 1/2. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-2/international-relations/washingtons-relationship-with- havana-and-caracas.cfm US Government (2009) ‗White House fact sheet: reaching out to the Cuban people‘, April 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Fact-Sheet-Reaching-out-to-the-Cuban-people/ US Senate (2009) ‗Changing Cuba policy—in the United States national interest‘ Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations http://lugar.senate.gov/sfrc/pdf/Cuba.pdf Brooking Institute ‗Cuban American Opinions Concerning U.S. Policy Toward Cuba and the U.S. Election‘ (December 2008 Poll) http://www.brookings.edu/events/2008/~/media/Files/events/2008/1202_cuba_poll/1202_cuba_poll.pdf Stephens, S. & Dunscomb, A. (eds) (2009) ‗9 ways for US to talk to Cuba and for Cuba to talk to US‘ The Center for Democracy in the Americas http://democracyinamericas.org/9-ways-us-talk-cuba-and-cuba-talk-us- new-report Ritter, A. (2008) ‗Cuba: current challenges and and alternative economic futures‘ Center for Strategic and International Studies http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/081202_arch_ritter.pdf Morris, E. (2008) ‗Cuba‘s Economy: prospects for change‘ Center for Strategic and International Studies http://csis.org/files/media/csis/events/081202_emily_morris.pdf Cuba American National Foundation (2009) ‗A new course for US Cuba Policy: advancing people driven change‘ http://www.canf.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=Press%20Releases&refno=110 Smith, W. (2009) ‗A new opening to Cuba can give Obama momentum internationally‘ Center for International Policy http://www.ciponline.org/cuba/articles/wayne_smith_obama_cuba_report_09.pdf
Week 9 Civil Society and Human Rights in Cuba and in US policy
Growth of Cuban NGOs in the Special Period. Civil, social, and human rights in Cuba. The prioritisation and disproportionality issues. Civil society in US ‗regime change‘ strategy. Clinton‘s ‗twin track‘ policy; civil society building in Bush‘s Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. Impacts of US policy in Cuba, on NGOs and dissidents. Cuba‘s legislative response to ‗track two‘. Significance of 2003 trials in Cuba. The 2010 prisoner releases and Obama‘s shift to internet dissidence.
What are the pros and cons of human rights in Cuba? Why are human rights and ‘civil society’ so central to US strategy against Cuba?
Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) Ch 8 Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield) Ch 7 Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) Ch 6 Perez-Stable, M. (1999) The Cuban Revolution: origins, course, legacy (Oxford UP) Ch 6 (ebook) Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Chs 2 & 4 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Ch 6 Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Parts V & VI
18 POL3021
Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) Ch 4, 9 Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section 1991-2006 ‗Domestic‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life chs 20-22
Civil society and rights in Cuba
Gray, A.I. & Kapcia, A. (2008) The changing dynamic of Cuban civil society (University Press of Florida) esp Ch 2 Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) ch 6 Kapcia, A. (2005) Havana: the Making of Cuban Culture (Berg) Ch3 Lumsden, I. (1996) Machos, maricones, and gays: Cuba and homosexuality Griffiths, J. & Griffiths, P. (eds.) (1979) Cuba : the second decade (Writers and Readers) Part III Lopez Vigil, M (1999) Cuba: Neither Heaven nor Hell (EPICA) Miriam Elizade, R. & Baez, L (2003) The Dissidents; Cuban state security agents reveal the true story (Editora Politica) Tulchin, S et al (eds) (2005) Changes in Cuban Society since the Nineties free download from Woodrow Wilson Centre at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Cuba.pdf
Hernandez, R., Dilla, H., Dugan Abbassi, J. & Diaz, J. (1991) ‗Political culture and political participation in Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 18/2 (ejournal) O‘Bryan, J. and Otero, G. (2002) ‗Cuba in transition? The civil sphere‘s challenge to Castro‘ Latin American Politics and Society 44/4. (ejournal) Hernandez, R. (2008) ‗Walking without crutches: culture, politics and critical thought‘ International Journal of Cuba Studies 1/1 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-1/articles/walking-without-crutches-culture-politics- and-critical-though.cfm Ritter, A.R.M. (1998) ‗Entrepreneurship, microenterprise and public policy in Cuba: promotion, containment or asphyxiation?‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 40/2 (ejournal) Dilla, H. (1999) ‗Comrades and investors: the uncertain transition in Cuba‘ in Socialist Register Armony, A.C. (2005) ‗Theoretical and comparative reflections on the study of civil society in Cuba‘ in Tulchin, S et al (eds) (2005) Changes in Cuban Society since the Nineties free book download from Woodrow Wilson Centre at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/Cuba.pdf Chanan, M. (2001) ‗Cuba and Civil Society, or Why Cuban Intellectuals Are Talking about Gramsci‘, Nepantla: Views from South‘ 2/1 (ejournal) Pateman, J. ‗Reading Orwell in Havana‘ International Journal of Cuba Studies 1/2 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-2/arts-heritage-and-culture/reading-orwell-in-havana.cfm Miller, N. (2009) ‗A revolutionary modernity: the cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 (ejournal)
Allen, J.S. (2009) ‗Looking black at revolutionary Cuba Latin American Perspectives 36/1. (ejournal) de la Fuente, A. (2008) ‗The new Afro-Cuban Cultural movement and the debate on race in contemporary Cuba‘ Journal of Latin American Studies, 40. (ejournal) Tickner, A. B. (2008) ‗Aquí en el Ghetto: Hip-hop in Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico‘ Latin American Politics and Society 50/3. (ejournal) Fernandes, S. 'Fear of a Black Nation: Local Rappers, Transnational Crossings and State Power in Contemporary Cuba', Anthropological Quarterly, 76/4 2003 (ejournal) Otero, G. & O‘Bryan, J. ‗Cuba in transition? The civil sphere‘s challenge to the Castro regime‘ Latin American Politics and Society 44/4 2002 (ejournal)
Wppler-Grogan, D. (2010) ‗Cultural policy, the visual arts, and the advance of the Cuban revolution in the aftermath of the gray years‘ Cuban Studies 41 (ejournal) Kumaraswami, P. (2009) ‗Cultural policy and cultural politics in revolutionary Cuba: re-reading the Palabras a los intelectuales (words to the intellectuals) Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/4. (ejournal) Miller, N. (2008) A revolutionary modernity : the cultural policy of the Cuban revolution‘ Journal of Latin American Studies, 40. (ejournal) Wood, D. (2009) ‗Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the art of revolutionary cinema‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research, 28/4. (ejournal)
19 POL3021
Davies, C. (1996) ‗Recent Cuban fiction films: identification, interpretation, disorder‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 15/2. (ejournal) Padura, L (2005) Red Havana. (Bitter Lemon Press. Politico-crime novel, including attack on cultural censorship and homophobia; see Mole for key passages) Wilkinson, S (2006) Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture. (Peter Lang. Includes analysis of Padura‘s work) Pettavino, P. J. (1994) Sport in Cuba: the diamond in the rough (University of Pittsburgh Press) Carter, T (2008) The quality of home runs: the passion, politics and language of Cuban baseball (Duke University Press)
Wilkinson, S. (1999) ‗Homosexuality and the repression of intellectuals in Fresa y chocolate and Máscaras’ Bulletin of Latin American Research 18/1. (ejournal) Guillard Limonta, N. R. (2009) ‗Cuba and the Revolutionary Struggle to Transform a Sexist Consciousness: Lesbians on the Cuban Screen‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Stout, N.M. (2008) Feminists, Queers and critics : debating the Cuban sex trade‘ Journal of Latin American Studies, 40. (ejournal) Rodríguez-Falcón, O. (2009) ‗The Lumpen and the Popular: Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Julio García Espinosa‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/4. (ejournal)
Chilcote, R. H. ‗Participation and the workplace in socialist Cuba‘ Latin American Perspectives 20/1 1993 (ejournal) Evenson, D. (2002) Workers in Cuba - unions and labour relations (Institute of Employment Rights) available at http://www.cuba- solidarity.org.uk/conference/docs/Institute%20of%20Employment%20Rights%20Report%20on%20Workers% 20and%20Trade%20U.pdf Evenson, D. and Ludlam, S. (2011) Workers in Cuba - unions and labour relations. 2011 Update (Institute of Employment Rights) Fuller, L. ‗Changes in the relationship among the unions, administration, and the Party at the Cuban workplace, 1959-1982‘ Latin American Perspectives 13/2 1986 (ejournal) Lindenberg, G. ‗The labor union in the Cuban workplace‘ Latin American Perspectives 20/1 1993 (ejournal)
US Policy
Pereze-Stable M. (2010) The United States and Cuba. Routledge Erikson, D.P. (2008) The Cuba wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the next generation (Bloomsbury Press) Erisman, M. H. and Kirk, J. M. (eds.) (2006) Redefining Cuban foreign policy: the impact of the "Special Period" (University Press of Florida) Hannet, P. & Vanderbrush, W. (2005) The Cuban embargo: the domestic politics of an American foreign policy (University of Pittsburg Press) Morley, M. & McGillion, C. (2002) Unfinished business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001 (Cambridge UP) eoffprint Erisman, M. H. (2000) Cuba's foreign relations in a post-Soviet world (University Press of Florida)
Soares, J. A. (2006) ‗Strategy, ideology and human rights: Jimmy Carter confronts the Left in Central America, 1979-1981‘ Journal of Cold War Studies 8/4. Robinson, I. W. (1995) ‗Pushing polyarchy: the US-Cuba case and the third world‘ Third World Quarterly 16/4 (ejournal) Dominguez, J.I. (1997) ‗US-Cuban relations: from the Cold War to the Colder War‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39/3 1997 (ejournal) Kirk, E., Kirk, J. & Girvan, N. (2010) Recent Media Coverage of Cuba: Selective Commendation, Selective Indignation, at http://www.counterpunch.org/kirk04162010.html Dominguez, J.I. ‗US-Cuban relations in the 1980s: issues and politics‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 27/1 1985 (ejournal) Carter, J. (2011) Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Cuba. http://www.cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/cuba-march2011.html Carter, J. (2002) President Carter's Cuba Trip Report http://www.cartercenter.org/news/documents/doc528.html Castro Marino, S. M. (2002) ‗US-Cuban relations during the Clinton Administration‘ Latin American Perspectives 29/4 2002 (ejournal)
20 POL3021
Vanderbush, W. & Haney, P. J. (1999) ‗Policy toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration‘ Political Science Quarterly 114/3, (ejournal) Leogrande, W. M. (1997) ‗Enemies Evermore: US Policy towards Cuba after Helms-Burton‘ Journal of Latin American Studies, 29/1, 1997 (ejournal) Petras, J. & Morley, M. (1996) ‗Clinton's Cuba policy: two steps backward, one step forward’ Third World Quarterly 17/2 (ejournal) Falk, P.S. (1997) ‗The US-Cuba agenda: opportunity or stalemate‘ Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39/1 (ejournal) Lamrani, S. (2008) ‗The Contradictions of Amnesty International‘ at http://www.canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/Documents/Roque-Dissidents-Apr03.pdf Lamrini, S. (2007) ‗The Deceit of Reporters Without Borders‘ http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15873
Government, UN, EU and NGO sources
Republic of Cuba (2008) National Report of the Republic of Cuba to the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council. http://www.cubaminrex.cu/Derechos%20Humanos/Articulos/ConsejoDerechosHumanos/Informe/EPU_INFOR ME_CUBA_INGLES.DOC Republic of Cuba (2006) Cuba, Humans With Rights (White Book 2006) at http://www.cubaminrex.cu/CDH/62cdh/ingles/White_Book_2006/PartI/Chapter_III.htm Republic of Cuba (2009) Report of Republic of Cuba to the UN on the necessity of ending the embargo http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/Informe2009/InformeIngles/indexing.html Republic of Cuba (2003) Cuban foreign minister press conference on 2003 arrests (in English) http://europa.cubaminrex.cu/English/PressConferences/Articulos/2003/C2.html United States Government Accounting Office (2007) Economic Sanctions: Agencies Face Competing Priorities in Enforcing the U.S. Embargo on Cuba, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0880.pdf United States Government Accountability Office (2008) ‗Continued Efforts Needed to Strengthen USAID‘s Oversight of U.S. Democracy Assistance for Cuba‘ http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09165.pdf United States Senate (2010) ‗Cuba: Immediate Action Is Needed to Ensure the Survivability of Radio and TV Marti: a Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations‘ http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/56157.pdf Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report to the President May 20, 2004, http://2005- 2009.cafc.gov/rpt/2004/c18166.htm United States Department of State (2011) 2010 Human Rights Report: Cuba. United States Department of State: Washington DC. Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report to the President July, 2006, http://2005- 2009.cafc.gov/rpt/2006/c18232.htm Compact with the Cuban People http://www.cafc.gov/documents/organization/68854.pdf (and see some of the civil rights documents listed in the previous topic) United Nations (1992) Report on the situation of human rights in Cuba submitted by the Special Rapporteur, Mr. Carl-Johan Groth, in accordance with Commission resolution 1992/61, A/47/625 para 89, at http://www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/(Symbol)/E.CN.4.1993.39.En?Opendocument United Nations (2008) Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba, http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/93 United Nations Human Rights Council (2008) Compilation Prepared by the High Commissioner for Human Rights - Cuba http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CU/A_HRC_WG6_4_CUB_2_E.pdf Amnesty International (2009) The US Embargo Against Cuba: Its Impact on Economic and Social Rights p.20. See http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/007/2009/en European Union ‗Common Position on Cuba‘ http://eur- lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996E0697:EN:NOT Amnesty International (2009) The US Embargo Against Cuba: Its Impact on Economic and Social Rights p.6. See http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/007/2009/en Human Rights Watch (2009) New Castro, Same Cuba: Political Prisoners in the Post-Fidel Era. See http://www.hrw.org/en/node/86554 Amnesty International (2003) Cuba: "Essential measures"? Human rights crackdown in the name of security. See http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/017/2003 Human Rights Watch (1993) Freedom of Expression in Miami’s Cuban Exile Community. See http://hrw.org/reports/1993/WR93/Hrw.htm
21 POL3021
CUBA, LATIN AMERICA AND C21 INTERNATIONALISM
Week 10 Cuba and the ‘pink tide’ in Latin America
The ‗pink tide‘ of the left in Latin America - the end of Cuban isolation? The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA. Non-ALBA ‗pink tide‘ relations. The defeat of FTAA. The decision of the Organisation of American States to end Cuba‘s exclusion. Cuba in the Rio Group and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
How does Cuba benefit from the development of ALBA? How are US-Cuba relations affected by the new politics of Latin America?
Lievesley, G. & Ludlam, S. (2009) Reclaiming Latin America: experiments in radical social democracy (Zed Books), Introduction. Barrett, P., Chavez, D. and Rodríguez-Garavito (2008) The New Latin American Left: Utopia Reborn (Pluto Press) Reid, M. (2007) Forgotten continent: the battle for Latin America’s soul (Yale UP) Raby, D.L (2006) Democracy and revolution: Latin America and socialism today (Pluto Press) Kirk, J.M. & Erisman, H.M. (2009) Cuban medical internationalism: origins, evolution, and goals (Palgrave). Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section 1991-2006 ‗Cuba and the World‘, After Fidel under Raul ‗Cuba in the World‘ Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: my life ch 25
Azicri, M. (2009) ‗The Castro-Chavez Alliance‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Suárez Salazar, L. (2009) ‗The Cuban Revolution and the new Latin American leadership: a view from its utopias‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Cole, K. (2008) ‗ALBA: a process of concientizacion‘ International Journal of Cuba Studies 1/2 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-2/international-relations/alba-a-process-of-concientizacion.cfm Vorsermans, J. (2008) ‗Washington's relationship with Havana and Caracas‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 1/2. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-2/international-relations/washingtons-relationship-with- havana-and-caracas.cfm
On the Cuba-Venezuela link there is useful material at the Morris-Buxton seminar in the ‗Past Events‘ pages of www.cubastudies.org
There is a very useful, early academic report on ALBA in the MOLEhill
Week 11 Cuba’s civil internationalism: humanitarianism and ‘soft power’ diplomacy
Cuban internationalism in the 21st century: health and literacy brigades. Cuba and Venezuela: oil money and human capital. Forms of medical internationalism: humanitarian emergency aid, development aid. Trade following the medical flag – medical services displace tourism? Mission Miracle. Internationalism as ideological reinforcement within Cuban society.
Why has Cuba’s civil internationalism been so extensive? What are the objectives of Cuba’s medical internationalism?
Kirk, J.M. and Erisman, H.M. (2009) Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals (Palgrave) (eoffprint ch5 requested) Eckstein, S. (2003 2nd edn) Back from the future: Cuba under Castro (Princeton University Press) ch 7
Feinstein, J. (2010) ‗Fifty years of Cuba‘s medical diplomacy: from idealism to pragmatism‘ Cuban Studies 41 (ejournal) Kirk, E. & Kirk, J.M. (2010) One of the World's Best Kept Secrets: Cuban Medical Aid to Haiti http://www.counterpunch.org/kirk04012010.html Kirk, J.M. (2009) ‗Cuba‘s medical internationalism: development and rationale‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/4. (ejournal) Huish, R. and Spiegel, J. (2008) ‗Integrating health and human security into foreign policy‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 1/1 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-1/articles/integrating-health-and- human-security-into-foreign-policy.cfm
22 POL3021
Kirk, J. M. (2009) ‗Reflections on medical internationalism‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/1. (ejournal) Kirk, E., Kirk, J.M., & Girvan, N. (2010) Recent Media Coverage of Cuba: Selective Commendation, Selective Indignation http://www.counterpunch.org/kirk04162010.html Anderson, T. (2008) ‗Solidarity aid: the Cuba-Timor Leste health programme‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 1/2 http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-2/international-relations/solidarity-aid-the-cuba-timor- leste-health-programme.cfm Huish, R. and Kirk, J.M. (2007) ‗Cuban medical internationalism and the development of the Latin American School of Medicine‘, Latin American Perspectives 34 (ejournal)
Gleijeses, P. (1996) ‗Cuba's first venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 28/1. (ejournal) Saney, I. (2009) ‗Homeland of Humanity: Internationalism within the Cuban Revolution‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 Harris, R. (2009) ‗Cuban internationalism, Che Guevara, and the survival of Cuba‘s socialist regime‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/3. (ejournal) Kronenberg, C.W. (2009) ‗Manifestations of humanism in revolutionary Cuba: Che and the principle of universality‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal)
CUBA’S ‘JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN’ (Raúl Castro)
Week 12 Where is Cuba Going?
The passing of Fidel‘s charismatic authority and the ‗historic generation‘? From mobilization politics to institutionalisation. Mass consultation and a new culture of criticism. Removing ‗obsolete prohibitions‘. Restoring the ‗socialist principle of distribution‘: wages and productivity. The 2008 hurricanes, world recession and Cuba‘s liquidity crisis. The 2010 mass redeployment announcement. The ‗new model‘ and the 2011 Party Congress debate and decisions. Expanding the non-state sector, attacking bureaucracy and paternalism, reforming the Party‘s methods.
How has political culture changed under Raúl? What are the main elements of Cuba’s ‘updated model’?
The journals Bulletin of Latin American Research, Journal of Latin American Studies, and Latin American Perspectives have special Cuba editions in 2009 with a number of relevant articles (ejournals) There are relevant reports from expert seminars in the ‗Past Events‘ pages of www.cubastudies.org
Lambie, G. (2010) The Cuban Revolution in the 21st century (Pluto Press) ch 5 (eoffprint requested) Kapcia, A. (2008) Cuba in revolution: a history since the fifties (Reaktion) ch 7 Bell Lara, J. & Dello Buono, R.A. (2005) Cuba in the 21st century: realities and perspectives (Editorial José Martí) Chs 11 & 12 Brenner, P., Jimenez, M.R, Kirk, J.M and Leogrande, W.M (2008) A contemporary Cuba reader: re-inventing the revolution (Rowan and Littlefield). Gott, R. (2004) Cuba: a new history (Yale University Press) Epilogue Saney, I. (2004) Cuba: a Revolution in Motion (Zed Books) Ch 6 Lievesley, G. (2004) The Cuban revolution: past, present and future (Palgrave) Ch 7 Martínez Puentes, S. (2004) Cuba : beyond our dreams : economy, politics and unionism in the material, moral and human work of the Cuban Revolution (Editorial José Martí) Camona Baez, A. (2004) State resistance to globalisation in Cuba (Pluto Press) Ch 5 Kapcia, A. (2000) Cuba: island of dreams (Berg) Conclusion Chomsky, A. et al (2004) The Cuba Reader: history, culture, politics (Duke University Press) Part VIII Sweig, J. (2009) Cuba: what everyone needs to know (OUP) section After Fidel under Raul Castro, F. & Ramonet, I. (2007) Fidel Castro: My Life (Penguin) ch 25 eoffprint
Latell, B. (2007) After Fidel: Raul Castro and the future of Cuba's Revolution (Palgrave) Hoffman, B. & Whitehead, L. (Eds) (2007) Debating Cuban exceptionalism (Palgrave) Chs 3 & 6 Perez-Stable, M. (2007) Looking forward: comparative perspectives on Cuba's transition (University of Notre Dame Press) Raby, D.L (2006) Democracy and revolution: Latin America and socialism today (Pluto Press) Chs 4 & 5 Monreal, P. (2002) Development prospects in Cuba: an agenda in the making (Institute of Latin American Studies) Parts 2 & 3
23 POL3021
López-Segrera, F. ‗The Cuban Revolution: current situation, scenarios, and alternatives‘ Latin American Perspectives 38/3 (ejournal) Mesa-Lago, C. And Vidal-Alejandro, P. (2010) ‗The impact of the global crisis on Cuba‘s economy and social welfare‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 42/4 (ejournal) Peters, P. (2009) ‗Raulonomics: tough diagnosis and partial prescriptions in Raul Castro‘s economic policies‘ http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/raulonomics-tough-diagnosis-and-partial-prescriptions-in-raul-castros- economic-policies?a=1&c=1181 Kapcia, A. (2009) ‗Does Cuba fit yet or is it still exceptional?‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 40 Alzugaray Treto, C. (2009) ‗Continuity and Change in Cuba at 50: The Revolution at a Crossroads‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Brundenius, C (2009) ‗Revolutionary Cuba at 50: growth with equity revisited‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Kapcia, A. (2009) ‗Lessons of the Special Period: Learning to March Again‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Sánchez Egozcue, J.M & Triana Cordoví, J. (|2008) ‗An overview of the Cuban economy, the transformations underway and the prospective challenges it faces‘ Real Instituto Elcano Working Paper, online at: http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/Content?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/Elcano_in/Z onas_in/Latin+America/DT31-2008 Ritter, A.R.M. & Rowe, N. (2002) ‗Cuba: from ―dollarisation‖ to ―Euro-ization‖ or ―peso reconsolidation‖?‘ Latin American Politics and Society 44/2 2002 (ejournal)
Evenson, D. (2009) ‗Opening Paths to Renewed Popular Participation‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Rodríguez, N. ‗Participation and Decision Making in Local Spaces in Cuba: Notes for a Debate on the Challenges Facing Popular Power after 30 Years‘ Latin American Perspecitves 36 (ejournal) Ludlam, S. (2009) ‗Cuban socialism: recovery and change‘ in Lievesley, G. & Ludlam, S. (2009) Reclaiming Latin America: experiments in radical social democracy (Zed Books) Ludlam, S. (2009) ‗Cuba at 50: what about the workers?‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 28/Special (ejournal) Muñoz, R. (2009) ,The Cuban Revolution: a promised land‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) de Sousa Santos, B. (2009) ‗Why has Cuba become a difficult problem for the left?‘ Latin American Perspectives 36 (ejournal) Centeno, M. (2004) ‗Society for Latin American Studies 2004 Plenary Lecture The Return of Cuba to Latin America: The End of Cuban Exceptionalism?‘ Bulletin of Latin American Research 23/4 (ejournal) Brundenius, C. (2004) ‗Whither the Cuban economy after recovery? The reform process, upgrading strategies and the question of transition‘ Journal of Latin American Studies 34 (ejournal) Ritter, R.M. and Rowe, R. (2002) Cuba: From ―Dollarization‖ to ‗‗Euroization‖ or “ Peso Reconsolidation‖? Latin American Politics And Society 44/2. (ejournal)
Brundenius, C. (2009) ‗Growth with equity revisited‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Pollitt, B.H. (2009) From sugar to services‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 2/1. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-3/science-and-society/from-sugar-to-services.cfm González Corona, J. (2009) ‗The municipal university centers: past, present, and future‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Nuñez, J. and Fernández, A. (2008) ‗Open access and sustainable development [in higher education]‘ International Journal of Cuban Studies 1/1. http://www.cubastudiesjournal.org/issue-1/policy-and- practice/open-access-and-sustainable-development.cfm Martín Sabina, E. (2009) ‗Thoughts on Cuban education‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal)
Selbin, E. (2009) ‗Conjugating the Cuban Revolution: it mattered, it matters, it will matter‘ Latin American Perspectives 36. (ejournal) Alzugaray Treto, C. (2009) ‗Continuity and change in Cuba at 50: the Revolution at a crossroads‘ Latin American Perspectives 36. (ejournal) de Sousa Santos, B. (2009) Why has Cuba become a difficult problem for the left? Latin American Perspectives 36/3. (ejournal) Lutjens,S.L. (2009) ‗On the Left with the Cuban Revolution‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal) Rumbaut, L.E. and Rumbaut, G. (2009) ‘The Cuban Revolution at 50‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/1. (ejournal) Muñoz, R. (2009) ‗The Cuban Revolution: A Promised Land‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/1. (ejournal) Foran,J. (2009) ‗Theorizing the Cuban Revolution‘ Latin American Perspectives 36/2. (ejournal)
24