..., but there is persistent racial inequality in Cuba as well, notably in the tourism sector and universities. Unfortunately, these inequalities are overlooked in national statistics. Cuba’s foreign relations to both the U.S. and Venezuela are reviewed in terms of current affairs, and the importance of the Catholic Church...

...This chapter tells a story that focuses on the role of Haiti in the political careers of John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. We offer students and instructors insight into the importance of Haiti in the political imaginary and foreign policy of the first four decades of U.S. history. Thanks...

...This chapter points out that Dwight D. Eisenhower attempted to market foreign policies using the rhetoric of peace. It contends that the Eisenhower administration incorporated a psychological warfare strategy that used the language of peace to sell the Cold War and convince the world...

... and foreign policy initiatives. The book is a case study of a one-term administration in a single country and it is an investigation which may have wide implications for other Latin America states. This chapter also presents the organization of the book with a brief synopsis of each chapter. Bush George...

... acrimonious. In the process, domestic and foreign policies often interacted to an unusual degree as competing ideologies repeatedly impacted on Andean politics. Ecuador García Sayán Larrabure Diego as foreign minister Mahuad Witt Jorge Jamil Noboa Bejarano Gustavo Paniagua Corazao Valentín Arms control...

... Inácio South American Community of Nations Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones CSN background García Sayán Larrabure Diego as foreign minister Inter American Democratic Charter IDC adoption of Organization of American States OAS adopts Inter American Democratic Charter Paniagua Corazao Valentín...

...This chapter describes several different ways in which the Helms-Burton law affects prospective and existing foreign investors in Cuba. It also evaluates the impact of the legislation on Cuba's economic performance and the flow of foreign investment as well as its effectiveness in forcing overseas...

... of the indigenous population, and was soon to be assailed by internal war. Only a large influx of foreign missionaries and vigorous recruiting to lay revitalization movements pushed it back from further collapse. According to this chapter, various challenges, especially the intense competition with evangelical...

... force in the formulation of an inflexible U.S. foreign policy toward the island. After the Cold War, the political activism of Cuban exile leaders heightened, hence impeding the reduction of the existing conflict between the U.S. and Cuba and the creation and implementation of confidence-building...

... with a summary of the U.S. anti-Castro movements from 1959 up until the fall of the Soviet Union. Although no invasion plots were brewed by the U.S. government after 1961, the U.S. nevertheless did not stop at destabilizing the Cuban government either. The chapter also discusses Cuba's internationalist foreign...

..., the author examines the remarkably stable Jordan as a microcosm of the region's politics. He traces the last four decades of Jordanian foreign policy in an attempt to better understand what seems like chaos. What he finds is an approach that is fundamentally different from alliances made in the West, in both...

... fanciful pro–human rights narrative. In most countries, the Argentine military staved off the international human rights related critique that entered the language of foreign policy makers in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. As a result, the dictatorship suffered minimal damage economically...

...At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Brazil was able to raise its profile in terms of global foreign-policy as it became known with Russia, China, and India as one of the BRIC emerging-market countries that preoccupy the G-8 nations' foreign ministries. Brazil has played no small part...

... the efficacy of foreign missions, the chapter examines both of these novels along with the reviews received by them. According to this chapter, the religious issues which were raised in reviews of Typee and Omoo spoke mainly to mainstream American as well as British concerns...

... of an emphasis on national identity than political community in order to diminish the threat that globalization and neoliberalism posed to the nation's sovereignty and self-determination. This has had rather direct implications for the Ocha-Ifá community. As the number of foreign visitors interested in going...

...William McKinley's 1898 tour of the South was a variation in the established Republican ritual. This time, a president was able to travel in the wake of a resounding foreign policy success. The opportunity was riper than it had ever been to put to rest the haunting ghoul of sectionalism...

...This chapter examines the rise of the private sector in Cuba during the 1990s. The emergence of the private sector or petty entrepreneurs was brought about by the collapse of the Soviet bloc, which led to both the loss of 80 percent of Cuba's foreign trade and a tightening of the U.S. blockade...

...This chapter examines the logic of Venezuela's foreign policy under the Chávez administration and assesses its prospects for success or failure, drawing upon the existing literature on the foreign policy behavior of states in Latin America to provide a context for understanding Venezuela's...

...This chapter discusses public opinion about Hugo Chávez's Venezuelan foreign policy. Venezuela's foreign policy has been asserted by many to constitute a positive effort by the Venezuelan government to market its image internationally. The chapter looks at the impact of this strategy on target...

...This chapter focuses on Chávez's foreign policy strategies and how Venezuela's conflicts proliferate and accentuate because of the very nature of his strategy, a perpetual fuite en avant, employed externally to deal with unsolvable internal problems. Chávez rejects accepted...