Laurence Whitehead / Bert Hoffman

Debating Cuban Exceptionalism

Herausgegeben:Whitehead, L.; Hoffman, B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces the developments in Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent definitive demise of state socialism. Topics covered include: the reasons for the persistence of 'the Cuban model,' and an examination of the interaction between elite and non-elite actors, as well as between domestic and international forces.

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Produktdetails

• Studies of the Americas
• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-8075-5
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 239
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781403980755
• ISBN-10: 1403980756
• Artikelnr.: 22733658

Autorenporträt

LAURENCE WHITEHEAD is Official Fellow in Politics and Acting Warden, Nuffield College, UK. BERT HOFFMAN is Senior Researcher, Institute of Latin American Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; C.Offe On Cuban Political Exceptionalism; L.Whitehead Cuba: From Exception to Democratization?; A.Arato How Exceptional Is the Cuban Economy?; E.Morris The Gatekeeper State: Limited Economic Reforms and Regime Survival in Cuba, 1989-2002; J.Corrales Cuba: Consensus in Retreat; H.A.Dilla Cuba's Dilemma of Simultaneity: The Link between the Political and the National Question; B.Hoffmann The Cuban-American Political Machine: Reflections on Its Origins and Perpetuation; A.Portes Rethinking Civil Society and Religion in Cuba M.C.Crahan & A.Armony The Knots of Memory: Culture, Reconciliation, and Democracy in Cuba; R.Rojas Conclusions: Cuban Exceptionalism Revisited; L.Whitehead & B.Hoffmann

Rezensionen

'This is a work of great sophistication and scholarship. The editors have brought together extraordinary talent to examine historical, political and societal issues in a way that is original and stimulating.' - Hal Klepak, Royal Military College of Canada