Jamaica and Cuba, 1959-86 : a Caribbean pas de deux

In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Heft 302, S. 184-198

Abstract

Jamaica and Cuba are close neighbours sharing a climate, topography and history. Yet they have gone their separate ways politically - the one westwards, the other eastwards - to the point where it is difficult to discern which of them is the more firmly integrated within its chosen geopolitical system. For all this, they have never been able to keep totally separate their roles in world and regional affairs. The gravitational pull of their common Caribbean destiny has been too strong. The result has been that for a quarter of a century (1959-86) they have danced an uneasy 'pas de deux'