Center for International Affairs

Domínguez presents a comprehensive survey of Cuban international relations since Castro came to power, from the 1962 missile crisis and Cuba’s ties to the U.S.S.R. and other Communist countries, to Cuban support for revolutionary movements throughout the world. This book is based on extensive documentation and many in-depth interviews.

Bringing together the work of seasoned experts and younger scholars, this volume offers a wide-ranging analysis of the effects of historical patterns—whether interrupted or intact—on post–Cold War politics. Equally grounded in theory and empirical research, this volume offers a lucid description and interpretation of our changing world order.

The years 1955–1959 in Communist China included striking fluctuations and successes for Mao Tse-tung’s Party, and the working out of the first Five-Year Plan for economic and agricultural development. This newly integrated picture of five crucial years pioneers the use of documentation for dealing with Communist China.

Why does the interaction between young people and the university produce a number of Latin American students opposed to their governments and to the existing social structure? The authors of this study of student political attitudes and behavior explored this question with students in Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay.

On the Autonomy of the Democratic State challenges the assumption that elected and appointed public officials are consistently constrained by society in the making of public policy. Nordlinger demonstrates that the opposite is true and systematically identifies the state’s many capacities and opportunities for enhancing its autonomy.

In Venezuela, 1935 to 1958 marked the decline of traditional dictatorships and the emergence of stable democratic government. This pioneering study traces the formation of a successful alliance between the peasants and a small urban elite, provides an empirical structural–functional analysis of the alliance, and develops a provocative new view of peasant mobilization.

This is the first book that explores the relationship between the United States and Japan in terms of the competition for industrial raw materials. With startling consistency, their responses to similar problems appear to stem from each country’s history and culture, almost as if the country had no choice but to pursue the policy selected. This unique commingling of political and economic analysis will appeal not only to scholars of international relations, domestic political behavior, and commodity markets but also to the informed layman who wishes to understand what is likely to happen as two economic superpowers range the world to satisfy their appetites for raw materials.

New States in the Modern World is probably the first book to consider new states in relationship to their effect on world political order. This volume of original essays focuses on the origins and current status of the new African states and one Arab-African state, Egypt. This book takes a major step on the road to such redefinition.