Wcs;Fractured Blockade

The first book in the "Warwick University Caribbean Studies" series to concentrate on Cuba, this volume does so at a moment when the Revolution faces its most serious crisis since 1959. The hypothesis is - without West-European links, the Revolution might well have floundered. Refusing to submit to US pressures to cut links with Cuba, West European powers made a significant and hitherto largely unacknowledged contribution to the Revolution's survival. the links between Cuba, Britain and Spain, the three powers in detail, were not due to ideological affinities, but to commercial pragmatism and to a different perception from the US as to the nature of radical nationalist movements. This is discussed, as well as those European ideas which have contributed towards the Revolution's ideology. However, the main chapters of the book concentrate on diplomatic, economic and commercial relations and include contributions by British, US and Cuban specialists. The epilogue considers future scenarios and the dilemma facing Cuba in the "New International Order".