Cuba : la política exterior en el período especial

Authors

  • Luis Suárez Salazar

Abstract

This essay addresses the problems that the abrupt and in some cases surprising changes that have occurred in the world system in recent years have posed to Cuban foreign political and economic relations. In this contribution, reference is made broadly and schematically to the internal economic, political and ideological processes that, together with the dynamics of the international scene, have conditioned the external projection of the Cuban Revolution. It is thus intended to highlight the indissoluble, although not mechanical or linear, relationship between the development of the Cuban domestic situation (officially known for three years as the Special Period in Times of Peace) and the developments of both state and non-state foreign policy of the largest island of the Antilles.

Keywords:

Cuba, Foreign Policy, Special Period, World System, Internal and External Factors

Author Biography

Luis Suárez Salazar

Director del Centro de Estudios sobre América (CEA), La Habana, y editor de la revista que publica esa institución Cuadernos de Nuestra América.  Es autor de una gran cantidad de trabajos sobre las relaciones internacionales de Cuba.