A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: US-Cuba Diplomatic Rapprochement and Washington’s Relations with Latin America

   • Eric Hershberg

   Pages 1-13

3. Establishing, Not Restoring, Normal Relations between the United States and Cuba

   • Philip Brenner

   Pages 15-25

4. Cuba-US: The December 17 Agreement in the Rationale of Asymmetric Relations

   • Arturo Lopez-Levy

   Pages 27-40

5. A Südpolitik from Washington: How Much of Europe’s Ostpolitik Is There in the Current US-Cuban Détente?

   • Bert Hoffmann

   Pages 41-51

6. The End of the Bogeyman: The Political Repercussions of the US-Cuban Rapprochement

   • William M. LeoGrande

   Pages 53-65

7. Beyond Revolutionary Chic: How US-Cuba Rapprochement May Affect Cuban Arts

   • Ana Serra

   Pages 67-83

8. Post-17D and Processes of Cuban National Reconciliation

   • Holly Ackerman

   Pages 85-99

9. Cuban Exceptionalism

   • Marifeli Pérez-Stable

   Pages 101-113

10. How Will US-Cuban Normalization Affect Economic Policy in Cuba?

    • Emily Morris

    Pages 115-127

11. Cuban Economic Reforms and Rapprochement with the United States: A Comparative Perspective

    • Ricardo Torres

    Pages 129-142

12. Foreign Direct Investment in Cuba: A Necessity and a Challenge

    • Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva

    Pages 143-159

13. Entrepreneurial Reform, Market Expansion, and Political Engagement: Risks and Opportunities for Cuba Today

    • Ted A. Henken, Gabriel Vignoli

    Pages 161-177

14. Onstage or Backstage? Latin America and US-Cuban Relations

    • Andrés Serbin

    Pages 179-189

15. Conclusion: Keys to Assessing Progress Toward Establishing Normal Relations between the United States and Cuba

    • William M. LeoGrande, Eric Hershberg

    Pages 191-198

16. Back Matter

    Pages 199-205

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This book explores the diverse consequences of Presidents Obama and Castro brokering a rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more than half a century of estrangement. Economic, political, social, and cultural dynamics are analyzed in accessible fashion by leading experts from Cuba, the United States, Europe, and Latin America. What opportunities arise through the opening of diplomatic relations, and what issues may be obstacles to normalization? What are the implications for the Cuban economy, for its political system, and for ties with members of the Cuban diaspora? What are the implications for US relations elsewhere in Latin America? This up-to-date account addresses these and other questions about this new direction in US-Cuban relations.   

• Cuba
• US
• rapprochement
• embargo
• Latin America
• Obama
• Castro
• normalization
• diplomacy
• us politics
• latin american politics

• Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University, USA

  Eric Hershberg

• School of Public Affairs, American University, USA

  William M. LeoGrande

Eric Hershberg is Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University, USA. He has written widely on US-Latin American relations and on comparative politics of Latin America.


William M. LeoGrande is Professor of Government and Dean Emeritus of the School of Public Affairs at American University, USA. A noted authority on Cuban politics and U.S. Cuban relations, he is co-author, with Peter Kornbluh, of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (2015), and author of Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992 (1998).

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