Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cuba in a Global Context -- Part I. International Relations -- 1. Disaster, Disease, and Environmental Degradation: U.S.-Cuban Cooperation as a Bridge to Reconciliation -- 2. A Model Servant: The Revolutionary Armed Forces and Cuban Foreign Policy -- 3. Cuba's Monumental Children: Operation Peter Pan and the Intimacies of Foreign Policy -- 4. The Role of the Courts in Shaping U.S. Policy toward Cuba -- 5. Cuban-Chinese Relations after the End of the Cold War -- 6. "Complicated and Far-Reaching": The Historical Foundations of Canadian Policy toward Cuba -- Part II. Internationalism -- 7. The Cuba-Venezuela Alliance and Its Continental Impact -- 8. Santeria Commerce and the Unofficial Networks of Interpersonal Internationalism -- 9. The Promise of Globalization: Sustainable Tourism Development and Environmental Policy in Cuba -- 10. The Heart of the Matter: The Impact of Cuban Medical Internationalism in the Global South -- 11. Cuba's Revolutionary Agro-Ecological Movement: Learning from the Experience of Food Sovereignty -- 12. Postcards from Abroad: The Cuban Special Period through Spanish Eyes -- Part III. Transnationalism -- 13. Transnationalism and the Havana Cigar: Commodity Chains, Networks, and Knowledge Circulation -- 14. Through the Eyes of Foreign Filmmakers: Contradictions and Paradigms of Cuban Cinema after the Revolution -- 15. Cubans in Spain: Transnational Connections and Memories -- 16. Oral History and Constructions of Racial Memory -- 17. Cubans without Borders: From the Buildup to the Breakdown of a Socially Constructed Wall across the Florida Straits -- 18. Ernesto Che Guevara, Dispositions, and Education for Transnational Social Justice -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N.

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Cuba in a Global Context examines the unlikely prominence of the island nation's geopolitical role. The contributors to this volume explore the myriad ways in which Cuba has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. From the beginning, the Castro regime established a foreign policy that would legitimize the revolutionary government, if not in the eyes of the United States at least in the eyes of other global actors. The essays in this volume shed new light on Cuban diplomacy with communist China as well as with Western governments such as Great Britain and Canada. In recent years, Cubans have improved their lives in the face of the ongoing U.S. embargo. The promotion of increased economic and political cooperation between Cuba and Venezuela served as a catalyst for the Petrocaribe group. Links established with countries in the Caribbean and Central America have increased tourism, medical diplomacy, and food sovereignty across the region. Cuban transnationalism has also succeeded in creating people-to-people contacts involving those who have remained on the island and members of the Cuban diaspora. While the specifics of Cuba's international relations are likely to change as new leaders take over, the role of Cubans working to assert their sovereignty has undoubtedly impacted every corner of the globe.

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