Constructing Us Foreign Policy The Curious Case Of Cuba - David Bernell

This Book Seeks To Address The Roots Of The Hostility That Has Characterized The United States Relationship With Cuba And Has Persisted For Decades, Long After The Cold War. It Answers The Question Of Why Americas Cold War Era Policy Toward Cuba Has Not Substantially Changed, Despite A Radically Changed International Environment, Going Beyond The Common Explanation That American Electoral Politics And The Cuban Lobby Drive Us Policy Toward Cuba. Bernell Argues That Us Foreign Policy Towards Cuba Cannot Be Viewed As An Objective Response To A Set Of Challenges To Us Interests And Principles, And Is Better Understood As A Policy That Is Rooted In And Informed By Historical Understandings Of American And Cuban Identities, Which Are Themselves Historically Contingent.