TY - BOOK AU - Bender,Lynn Darrell TI - The politics of hostility: Castro's revolution and United States policy SN - 091348024X AV - E183.8.C9 B4 1975 U1 - 327.73/07291 PY - 1975/// CY - Hato Rey, P.R. PB - Inter American University Press KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Cuba KW - Politics and government KW - 1959-1990 KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - EE. UU KW - Polâitica y gobierno KW - 1959 **** N1 - 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 ER -