International Journal of Cuban Studies

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Publisher:
Pluto Journals
Publication date:
2023-03-02
ISBN:
1756-347X

Description:

The International Journal of Cuban Studies (IJCS) is the only bi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal providing a publication opportunity for scholarly work on Cuba and related topics. It is dedicated to the study of Cuba in the world and encourages submissions from the whole range of disciplines and from multi-disciplinary perspectives published in English and Spanish.

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  • 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
  • The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it
  • Cuban cobalt: A gateway to strategic minerals politics?

    This article explores Cuba’s status within the context of strategic minerals politics, focusing specifically on cobalt. Cuba has the third largest cobalt reserves in the world, which is a crucial element in lithium-ion batteries (especially those used in electric cars). The US, on the other hand, is sorely lacking in cobalt, which is on Washington’s list of Strategic Raw Minerals and is ranked third in terms of its “supply chain risk”. The key issues/questions addressed in the article are: “Cobalt as a Strategic Raw Material”; an “Overview of Cuban Cobalt”; and “Cuban Cobalt: Economic and Political Implications”. The article concludes with an analysis of cobalt’s potential to enhance Havana’s bargaining power with respect to any negotiations with Washington which might occur regarding US economic sanctions in particular and normalization of relations in general.

  • Alejandro de la Fuente (ed.), Cuban Studies 50
  • Economic and media war against socialist societies: The case of US–Cuban relations

    This article examines the US’s use of sanctions or unilateral coercive measures (economic war) and the US’s support for propaganda communicated through its own organised mass media and the supposedly “independent,” corporate mass media as well as through social media to instigate anti-government sentiment and action (media war). The US’s economic war against Cuba began soon after Cuba’s 1959 revolution, although the US’s hostile actions as well as desires and efforts to shape Cuban society go back to the 19th century. This economic war has had tremendous negative impact on Cuba’s economy and the daily life of Cubans. In terms of the media war, this article focuses on how propaganda distributed through mass, corporate media as well as social media, often paid for by the US government, was directed at misleading Cubans and others, including those in the US, about the situation in Cuba. Such distortions were designed to provoke alienation and anti-government action by Cubans in general and, in more recent years, particular subgroups of artists, musicians, Afro-Cubans, and youth. And while some successes can be noted (specifically the sparking and broadcasting of protests on 11 July 2021), more generally the media war has failed in its goal of regime change. The non-event of 15 November 2021 is a clear example of this.

  • 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.

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  • Local development in Cuba from a higher education perspective

    The place of local development issues in the country’s economic and social development model has changed drastically, especially in the last three years. Documents such as the Constitution of the Republic and the National Plan for Economic and Social Development 2030, together with the discourse, a set of approved policies and numerous actions by the government, clearly indicate that local development is no longer considered a relatively peripheral issue, of limited importance and only partially understood. To the contrary, it is now seen as a key element of the socio-economic transformations under way. In many municipalities the government–higher education–local development links are being consolidated. The Articulated Platform for the Integral Development of the Territories is an important tool: a flexible, integrative, inter-territorial, multi-level and multi-actor platform that operates throughout the country. The article reviews some of the obstacles that hinder the advancement of local development. Displacing the traditional centralist and top-down model is a difficult task.

  • Comportamiento del cumplimiento tributario de los trabajadores por cuenta propia en Cuba

    The Municipal Office of Tax Administration of Santiago de Cuba faces a sustained growth in the level of tax debt of the sector of self-employed workers who pay taxes under the general regime. In this paper, the factors that have the greatest influence on the behaviour of tax compliance in this segment of taxpayers are examined. Surveys were applied to selected experts from the institution, and to a selected sample, processed in SPSS 28.0 and applying prospective planning methods. It showed as key factors: the perception of risk, institutional control, tax justice, keeping documentation of fiscal relevance, trust in ONAT, communication and knowledge of the destination of their contributions to the budget. In addition, strategic recommendations are offered to strengthen strategic alliances with territorial organizations that intervene in compliance management.

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