Cuba's Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World

This series seeks to stimulate critical perspectives on diaspora processes in the New World. Representations of race and ethnicity, the origins and consequences of nationalism, migratory streams and the advent of transnationalism, the dialectics of homelands and diasporas, trade networks, gender relations in immigrant communities, the politics of displacement and exile, and the utilization of the past to serve the present are among the phenomena addressed by original, provocative research in disciplines such as anthropology, history, political science, and sociology.In a work that will become required reading for students of Cuban foreign policy, Michael Erisman analyzes the broad scope of revolutionary Cuba's foreign relations.The book emphasizes two key aspects of the subject: Cuba's adjustment since the disintegration of the Soviet Bloc, and the ongoing confrontation between Cuba and the United States. Using revolutionary Cuba's foreign relations as a case study in counterdependency politics, Erisman proposes that the country has always been highly sensitive to the danger of overdependence on an external power and examines Havana's implementation of this stance in both the Cold War and post-Cold War periods.As the first comprehensive single-author treatment of the subject, the book not only tells readers what happened to Cuba's foreign relations but also offers a basis for understanding them.