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Cuba – United States relations

Castro and the Caudillo

Irving Louis Horowitz | Aug 29, 2007
Francoism in Spain did not survive its namesake. Cuba’s brand of communism is likely to suffer a similar fate.

The Unipolar Moment Revisited

Charles Krauthammer | Dec 01, 2002
As the "unipolar moment" stretches out into an era, its opportunities and vulnerabilities both come clearer a dozen years after its conceptual coinage.

U.S. Asia (and China) Policy Reconceived

George J. Gilboy
Eric Heginbotham
| Sep 01, 2002
True realism about Asia transcends the Bush Administration's narrow focus on geopolitics and China.

Reforging the Atlantic Alliance

Philip H. Gordon | Sep 01, 2002
NATO is not dead or doomed, but the Allies should use the Prague Summit to assure its healthy future.

Harbinger or Aberration?: A 9/11 Provocation

John Mueller | Sep 01, 2002
The attacks on Washington and New York were the first of their kind; they may also be the last. A case against rushing to conclusions.

The Impossible Imperative? Conjuring Arab Democracy

Adam Garfinkle | Sep 01, 2002
Arab democracy is no oxymoron, but expecting it in time to remedy our 9/11 problem is unrealistic.
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Commentary

Tripoli Today, Havana Tomorrow?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Mar 02, 2011
Castro may have survived the 1989 revolution wave. He is unlikely to make it a second time.

Take Cuba Off The Terrorist List

Wayne S. Smith | Aug 06, 2007
Twenty-five years after the State Department first listed identified it as a state sponsor of terrorism, Cuba remains on the infamous list, despite no supporting evidence.

Unique Dissidence: A Conversation with Castro's Most Prominent Challenger

Ximena Ortiz | Feb 20, 2007
Paya’s abiding commitment to human rights, freedom of expression and non-violent change—on the one hand—and the apparent imminence of unprecedented circumstances in Cuba, could make this dissident historically consequential.
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Blogs

Violence in Mexico, Communism’s a Flop, and Other Startling Discoveries

Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 13, 2010
If Fidel Castro can finally come to grips with Communism's demise, maybe there's hope for American policy makers.

Books & Reviews

Crazy over Cuba

Andrew J. Bacevich | Dec 01, 1998
As this important volume demonstrates,  the overriding requirement of the era was not guts but wisdom. On that score, the Kennedys and their lieutenants flunked.

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