Studies In Comparative International Development articles from January 2000

Studies In Comparative International Development archives from January 2000

Eleven Theses on Cuba After Castro [*].(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... How can one speak of symmetry between a normal cell and a cancerous one? With its messianic pretensions, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, and its authoritarian power structure, our regime resembles a cancer cell. The public in our...

Festina Lente: United States and Cuba After Castro--What the Experience in Eastern Europe Suggests. Probable Realities and Recommendations [*].(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... It may appear that dealing with a post-Castro, probably post-communist and per haps (in the short term) "neo-communist" Cuba is a simple matter. After all, we have a 20/20 hindsight, based upon the experience of 1989-1991 in Eastern Europe...

Humanitarian Assistance During a Democratic Transition in Cuba.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Background Cuba is governed by one of the few remaining Marxist political and economic systems since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The longevity of the surviving system may be measured in years not decades, given...

Selected Technical Assistance Needs for Democratic and Institutional Transformation during the Cuban Transition.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Introduction As the end of the Castro regime gets closer, the need for considering what comes after is becoming more urgent. Castro has introduced a regime in Cuba that has deprived the Cuban people of the basic freedoms recognized in...

Role of the United States and International Lending Institutions in Cuba's Transition.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Cuba will eventually begin a transition into a market economy and a more open political system. As the process unfolds, the United States should maintain a prudent political distance while respecting Cuba's sovereignty. The United States,...

The United States and Cuba: Future Security Issues.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... The purpose of this highly speculative article is to assess a broad range of possible developments in Cuba over the next five to seven years that could directly and adversely affect U.S. interests. By definition, therefore, it does not...

Sustainable Small Enterprise Development in a Cuban Transition Economy.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... This article examines the status of small business development in Cuba through 1999, and evaluates the potential future of small enterprises in a Cuban transition to democracy and capitalism. In any transition to democracy and capitalism,...

Castro's Cuba: More Continuity than Change [*].(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... Introduction As a new millennium begins Castro faces some of the same old problems that have plagued the Cuban Revolution in the past, as well as new and critical challenges. Internally there is growing evidence of disillusionment with...