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| Dimensions: 9.2'' x 6.34'' |
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| 285 pages |
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AEI Press
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| Publication Date: September 2003 |
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| Hardcover |
| ISBN: 0-8447-4175-2 |
| Price: $ 25.00 |
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"The author's imaginative and credible cataloguing of changes in and around Cuba is informed by clear-eyed view of political forces in Cuba, the U.S., and elsewhere, and will be of value to a wide range of readers."
--CHOICE
"A painstaking historical analysis . . . a detailed investigation of Cuba's current realities . . . what sober, scholarly assessments are for."
--Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal
"A sobering account of precisely what Fidel Castro's legacy is and what Cuba has to do to overcome it . . . a good map of a very uneven terrain."
--Washington Times
"Mark Falcoff is a thorough and balanced scholar. [In Cuba the Morning After], he comes at issues from every possible angle, offering all available facts and citing a variety of opinions, before weighing in himself. He even gives the [Castro] regime's official spokesmen their say. . . . Falcoff debunks many of the myths about Communist Cuba."
--Jay Nordlinger, National Review
Americans no longer think of Cuba as a major threat. In fact, many Americans imagine that when Fidel Castro is gone, Cuba will become a free-market democracy.
The author challenges both assumptions in Cuba the Morning After, a major study of U.S.-Cuban relations. He suggests that this island is mired in history and fantasy--in thrall to an economic and social system that does not work and cannot work. Communism has shattered a once-rich civil society, one that cannot be rapidly reconstructed, particularly in the absence of a small-business class and a freer access to organized political activity. Fear of the future, declining demographies, a culture of dependency, and a tendency to opt out for emigration to the United States add to the mixture. [more...]
Mark Falcoff, a resident scholar at AEI, is the author of the monthly Latin American Outlook and editor of The Cuban Revolution and the United States (2001).
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
 Introduction
1. The Shadow of the Past
- The Search for Utopia
- History as Melodrama
- Cuba's Sonderweg
- The Years of Protectorate, 1901-1934
- The Batista Years, 1934-1958
- Cuba in 1958
- Past and Present Compared
2. Sugar
- A Blessing and a Curse
- Agriculture under Socialism, 1960-1963
- The Return to Sugar, 1963-1989
- Some Problems of Socialist Production
- Changes in the World Sugar Market
- Prospects for Reinsertion in the U.S. Market
- Alternatives to Sugar
- Concluding Remarks
3. Property
- The Most Socialist of States
- Property Issues and Diplomatic Normalization
- Third-Party Contracts and Property Controversies
- Claims of Former Cuban Nationals
- Possible Redress in Cuban Courts
- Some Problems of Implementation
- Who Should Pay What?
- Is There a Way Out?
- Looking Ahead
4. Security
- The Cuban Threat Revisited
- The Cuban Military and Its Strategic Doctrine
- Guantanamo
- Lourdes
- Germ Warfare
- The Juragua Nuclear Plant
- Narcotics
- Espionage
- Terrorism
- Conclusions and Prospects
5. Tourism and Environment
- The Cuban Reentry
- Cuba in the Caribbean:
Some Comparative Facts and Figures
- Background to Growth
- Impact of Tourism on the Cuban Economy
- The Tourism-Environment Nexus
- The Formal Structures of Environment Protection
- Systemic and Ideological Constraints on Environmental Protection
- Forestry Policies
- Agriculture
- Water
- Industrial Pollution
- The Urban Environment
- The "Special Period" and the Environment
- The Environment and the Future
6. Immigration
- The Coherence of Differences
- A Brief Policy History
- Cuba and Haiti Compared
- The Four Waves
- A Different Kind of Immigration?
- A Larger Perspective
- The Economic Dimensions of Immigration
- Some Demographic and Socioeconomic Predictors
- The Impact of Normalization
7. Civil Society
- Communist "Civil Society"
- The Roman Catholic Church
- Other Religious Bodies
- Race
- Nongovernmental Organizations
- The Military
- The Cuban-American Community
- Concluding Remarks
8. The Prospect
- An Impending Succession Crisis
- U.S. Constituencies for Post-Castro Cuba
- A Question of Identity
- The Riddle of Cuban Nationalism
- The United States and Cuba: The Question of Insertion
Notes
Index
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