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Subject To Solution: Problems In Cuban-U.S. Relations

Edited by Wayne S. Smith and Esteban Morales Dominguez
Reviewed by Abraham F. Lowenthal
Spring 1989
Subject To Solution: Problems In Cuban-U.S. Relations
Edited by Wayne S. Smith and Esteban Morales Dominguez
Lynne Rienner
1988
158 pp.
$18.00
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The result of a series of meetings held from 1985 through 1987 between U.S. and Cuban specialists, organized by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies and the University of Havana's Center of U.S. Studies, this volume presents well-informed U.S. and Cuban perspectives on current issues with an aim toward exploring how bilateral differences could be resolved if the two governments ever wished to do so. A significant contribution toward the reexamination of U.S.-Cuban relations that may ensue from changes in the broader U.S.-Soviet rivalry.

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