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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 COLOSSUS CHALLENGED: U.S. CARIBBEAN POLICY IN THE 1980's -- Introduction -- Caribbean Developments and U.S. Policy: An Overview -- Reagan's Caribbean Policy: An Analysis -- Reagan's Caribbean Policy: A Critique -- Conclusion -- 2 SOVIET POLICY AND THE CRISIS IN THE CARIBBEAN -- Introduction -- A Historical Perspective -- A Strategic Perspective -- The USSR and Central America -- Ideology -- Politics -- Security -- Economics -- Relations with Cuba and Soviet Caribbean Policy -- Soviet Tactics -- The Nicaraguan Revolution -- El Salvador -- Conclusions -- U.S. Interests and Options in the Caribbean Basin -- 3 CUBA IN THE CARIBBEAN AND CENTRAL AMERICA: LIMITS TO INFLUENCE -- Introduction -- Cuban Intervention and International Strains -- Decline in Cubans Fortunes -- Motivating Factors in Cuban Foreign Policy -- Evolution of Havana's Recent Influence Seeking -- The Shift Toward Military Aid in the Caribbean and Central America -- Evolving Opportunities and Capabilities -- Emerging Constraints on Cuban Foreign Policy -- Cuban-Soviet Ties -- Cuban Capabilities Versus Developmental Needs of the Region -- Internal Political Characteristics of the Caribbean and Central America -- The Cuban Revolutionary Model: A Waning Image -- Changing Regional and International Systems -- Conclusions -- 4 IDEOLOGY AND OIL: VENEZUELA IN THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN -- The Emergence of Venezuela's Circum-Caribbean Presence -- The Social Christians in Power -- Policy Interests -- The Limits and Effectiveness of Oil Diplomacy -- 5 MEXICO'S CENTRAL AMERICAN POLICY: REVOLUTIONARY AND PRUDENTIAL DIMENSIONS -- Introduction -- Mexico's Importance To and Interest In Central America -- The Elements of Mexico's Central American Policy -- The Revolutionary Dimension -- The Prudential Dimension -- Conclusion.

From its inception, Fidel Castro's revolution has exerted an impact on the international scene far out of proportion to Cuba's modest size and limited resources. This phenomenon became more pronounced in the mid-1970s as Havana's foreign policies took on truly global parameters that involved the dispatch of large combat forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the initiation of ambitious military and developmental aid programs for Third World nations, and the assumption of leadership of the Nonaligned Movement. Today Cuba remains a significant actor on the world scene, giving top priority to Caribbean and Central American affairs. Critics, especially in the United States, have insisted that Cuban globalism is not a nationalist expression, that Cuba is but a surrogate for the Soviet Union. Such charges, however, ignore or seriously underestimate the role that nationalism has always played in the Cuban Revolution. This book explores the nature and development of Castro's foreign relations in general and Cuban globalism in particular, with primary attention devoted to nationalism's influence on Havana's policies toward the United States, the Soviet Union, and especially the developing (mostly nonaligned) African, Asian, and Latin countries of the Third World. To give the reader an in-depth Cuban perspective on crucial international issues, excerpts from Castro's major speeches and press interviews are included. Erisman concludes that the nationalistic dimension of Havana's foreign policies has definitely not been fully appreciated, and this omission obscures the complexity and true essence of Cuban globalism.

This article provides an overview of the evolving situation with regard to Cuba's oil prospects and explores the implications, especially with regard to Havana's foreign relations, of Cuba's potential emergence as a hemispheric petropower. It begins with an assessment of the size of the reserves and the problems of exploiting them. It then analyses the impact of the discovery of sizeable reserves on the Cuban economy and the concerns that this may raise with the US. There follows a discussion of the possible implications of Cuba becoming a petropower on international relations within the Caribbean and with Washington in particular. The article concludes that overall, the exploitation of large quantities of oil in Cuban waters of the Caribbean will be a positive development both for the Cuban economy and the relationship with the US.