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