LOOKING FORWARD: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CUBA'S TRANSITION

Pérez-Stable, Marifeli

ISBN 10: 0268038910 / ISBN 13: 9780268038915

Published by University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 2007

About this Item

8vo, wrps, 360 p., bibl., index. "This is the most important book about Cuba to appear in a generation. A group of not-your-usual-émigrés and other experts who have taught us most of what we already know about contemporary Cuba have performed an extraordinary service to the policy and academic communities and their patria in imagining Cuba s future after Fidel. Building on their diverse expertise in politics, economic reform, civil-military relations, social policy, race, gender, and cultural relations, and drawing from models around the world of regime transitions gone wrong and right, their compelling essays project Cuba s recent past onto its immediate future and lay a blueprint for a free, democratic, and just society. There is quite simply no book like it." Frances Hagopian, Michael Grace II Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LOOKING FORWARD: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CUBA'S TRANSITION
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268038910
• ISBN 13: 9780268038915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • CARIBBEAN
  • CUBA
  • Cuba Cuban

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Synopsis

In Looking Forward, Marifeli Perez-Stable and her colleagues imagine Cuba's future after the "poof moment"―Jorge I. Domínguez's vivid phrase―when the current regime will no longer exist. Written in an accessible style that will appeal to all interested readers, this volume does not try to predict how and when the Castro regime will end, but instead considers the possible consequences of change. Each chapter―prepared by an expert in the field―takes up a basic issue: politics, the military, the legal system, civil society, gender, race, economic transition strategies, social policy and social welfare, corruption, the diaspora, memory, ideology and culture, and U.S.-Cuba relations.

The author of each chapter considers three questions: How have other new democracies handled the basic issue in question? How might Cuba's unique conditions affect this area in transition? What are the likely outcomes and alternatives for a Cuba in transition? Designed with students, policy-makers, and journalists in mind, this lively and accessible volume is an essential resource.

About the Author

Marifeli Pérez-Stable is vice president for democratic governance at Inter-American Dialogue and professor of sociology at Florida International University. She is author and editor of a number of books, including The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy.