International Journal of Cuban Studies

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• Comportamiento del cumplimiento tributario de los trabajadores por cuenta propia en Cuba
• Submission guidelines
• Alejandro de la Fuente (ed.), Cuban Studies 50
• International Journal of Cuban Studies
• The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it
• There and back again: United States policy toward Cuba in the 21st century

  The article proposes an approach to the US Cuba policy in the 21st century as public policy. We examine the core variables that drive this Cuba policy and their behaviour during the 21st century. We then identify the central axes of the policy and study their expressions. This allows us to explain the evolution of that policy across three administrations, the first year of a fourth and ten and a half legislative periods. The conclusions of the study provide a better understanding of the making and the nature of that policy. Consequently, it will help to explain the framework that the US Cuba policy creates to thwart the development of Cuba.

• Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield (eds.), Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba
• Global geopolitical confrontations in the post-Cold War era and the role of Cuba

  The authors begin from the premise that it is useful to analyse broad trends in international affairs by identifying key moments of change. The primary focus is the current phase of international affairs that has been labelled the post-Cold War world. The authors accept that the fall of the USSR at the end of 1991 marked an important change in geopolitics but argue that the 30-year time period since the fall of the Soviet Union has been marked by some very important changes. The era began with a seemingly omnipotent United States that proclaimed a New World Order of peace, prosperity and democracy. The authors analyse how that vision did not come to pass in the context of wars in the Middle East and the rise of China as a great power and the recovery of Russia. Cuba’s role in the post-Cold War era is analysed and preliminary thoughts are made on the potential changing world order in the context of the Russia-Ukraine War.

• Frederick Luciani, ed. and tr., José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825: An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution
• The aggression and the hard times continue, and in this issue

Featured documents

• La Salud Pública En Cuba: Años 2005–2014

  Se analiza la Salud Pública Cubana durante los años 2005–2014, período que coincide con las últimas reformas económicas – sociales implantadas por el Estado y el impacto de las mismas sobre el acceso de la población, la organización y estructura de las instituciones de salud. El objetivo de la...

• De los ciclos de no especialización a la era del azúcar: Elementos de historia de cuba en un largo período (1492–1898) – Parte 1
• Public Intellectuals and Politics in Cuba: A Case Study of Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (1872–1956)

  The dependent character of the Cuban bourgeoisie in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1895–98, the cycles of economic and political crisis with roots in the Island's sugar monoculture and economic dependency on the US and the pattern of US interventions in Cuban affairs under the Platt Amendment...

• There and back again: United States policy toward Cuba in the 21st century

  The article proposes an approach to the US Cuba policy in the 21st century as public policy. We examine the core variables that drive this Cuba policy and their behaviour during the 21st century. We then identify the central axes of the policy and study their expressions. This allows us to explain...

• Socially Responsible Enterprise in Cuba: A Positive Role Model for Corporate Social Responsibility?

  This article examines the unique institutional environment of socialist Cuba, where currently a process of controlled marketisation and expansion of private enterprise is taking place. The article investigates business behaviour in Cuba with particular reference to implicit assumptions relating to...

• Toward a more inclusive history of the Cuban revolution of 1959

  The article claims that most historiography of the Cuban revolution of 1959 has omitted women, people of colour, and to some extent student youth and labourers. The shorter first part of the paper presents reasons of historical context and ...

• La Influencia Del Culto A Los Orishas En La Patrimonialización Del Central Méjico (Matanzas)

  Hace más de veinte años que se celebra cada 21 de agosto, en el antiguo ingenio Álava – hoy Central Méjico – el ‘Día del Alavense Ausente’, una fiesta patrimonial donde se recuerda el pasado esclavista local. A lo largo del día y en sus diferentes actividades se nota la presencia del hecho...

• Reinvertir en la Habana: Mercantilización de la vivienda, y gentrificación en los barrios céntricos de una ciudad socialista del sur global
• Cuban Democracy in the Speeches of Fidel Castro, 1959–1976

  Fidel Castro developed an idea of democracy as a legitimate alternative to American democracy. At the dawn of the Cuban revolution Castro was careful enough to avoid Marxist concepts in his speeches, but after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 Castro embraced socialism as the ideology of the...

• Introducción al número especial sobre economía y sociedad: nuevos y viejos problemas del modelo cubano