The politics of hostility : Castro's revolution and United States policy /

Bender, Lynn Darrell.

The politics of hostility : Castro's revolution and United States policy / by Lynn Darrell Bender. - Hato Rey, P.R. : Inter American University Press, 1975. - xiv, 156 p. ; 22 cm.

A revision of the author's thesis, George Washington University. Second edition, completely rev. published in 1981 under title: Cuba vs. United States. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 145-148.

Background: The traditional links of the U.S.-Cuban relationship. -- Surveying the American perspective. -- The evolution of U.S. policy toward the Cuban revolutionary regime. -- U.S.-Cuban policy today: subtle modifications. -- The other principal actors and their outlooks. -- The Cuban revolutionary regime: its foreign policy goals and perspectives. -- Completing the triangle: the core interests of the Soviet Union in Cuba. -- A Russian submarine base in Cuba? Strategic considerations and the implications of the American-Soviet "understanding". -- U.S.-Cuban policy: the controlling variables and policy alternatives. -- Policy patterns, domestic constraints, and an examination of policy objectives. -- Obstacles to an eventual Cuban-American settlement: sugar, claims, Guantanamo, exiles. -- The policy alternatives: a cost-benefit analysis. -- Epilogue.

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Cuba--Foreign relations--United States.
Cuba--Politics and government--1959-1990.
Cuba--Relaciones exteriores--EE. UU.
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