More continuity than change? US strategy toward Cuba under Obama and Trump

Bhal, John de

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“…Beginning with Cuba, the Biden administration should continue President Obama's efforts to restore diplomatic and economic relations with the country. In response to the Trump administration's campaign to undo President Obama's progressive Cuba policy, over 100 members of Cuba's emerging business community who had managed to establish relations with members of the United States private sector and Congress sent a joint letter to President Trump imploring that he capitalizes on his predecessor's reforms (de Bhal, 2018). The stated purpose of the letter was to inform President Trump that "additional measures to increase travel, trade and investment, including working with the U.S. Congress to lift the embargo, will benefit [Cuban] companies, the Cuban people and U.S. national interests" (Engage Cuba Coalition, 2016).…”

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Geopolitics in the Western hemisphere after Trump: Has the united states abandoned hegemony in Latin America?

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2022

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The isolationist presidency of Donald Trump was only the last, albeit the most radical, of a series of United States administrations that have largely ignored fostering close relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. This apparent withdrawal has resulted in the steady rise of Brazil as a significant regional power as well as the incursion of Russian and Chinese influence in the region. In light of these developments, this article presents a historical overview of United States hegemony in the western hemisphere before outlining how recent setbacks have undermined this trend in the areas of regional trade, diplomacy, and security. As the Biden administration makes its transition, the article finishes by proposing how the United States could regain influence in the region by collaborating with its southern neighbors to promote economic development, defend human rights, and confront the region’s ongoing security issues.

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Geopolitics in the Western hemisphere after Trump: Has the united states abandoned hegemony in Latin America?

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2022

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“…Relations between the United States and Cuba are the historical product of pronounced power asymmetries (Brenner 2006;De Bhal 2018;Schoultz 2009), and Washington's actions toward Cuba have always been embedded in larger imperial and hegemonic projects designed to reinforce its structural advantages. The determination to possess Cuba was a critical element in the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine (Sexton 2011, 51-73).…”

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The Normalization of U.S. Policy Toward Cuba? Rapprochement and Regional Hegemony

Biegon

2020

Lat Am Polit Soc

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This article examines change and continuity in the United States' recent foreign policy toward Cuba. In the context of the posthegemonic regionalism of the Pink Tide and regional disputes over Cuba's position in the interamerican system, the Obama administration's rapprochement was driven to protect the institutional power and consensual features of U.S. hegemony in the Americas. The Trump administration reversed aspects of Obama's normalization policy, adopting a more coercive approach to Cuba and to Latin America more broadly. Against the emerging scholarly proposition that the international relations of the Americas have crossed a posthegemonic threshold, this analysis utilizes a neo-Gramscian approach to argue that the oscillations in U.S. Cuba policy represent strategic shifts in a broader process of hegemonic reconstitution. The article thus situates U.S. policy toward Cuba in regional structures, institutions, and dynamics.

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2022

Discourses of Migration in Documentary Film

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More continuity than change? US strategy toward Cuba under Obama and Trump

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Geopolitics in the Western hemisphere after Trump: Has the united states abandoned hegemony in Latin America?

Geopolitics in the Western hemisphere after Trump: Has the united states abandoned hegemony in Latin America?

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