Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana
LeoGrande, William M.
Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 2014 - 524 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Rebuilding bridges -- Eisenhower : patience and forbearance -- Kennedy : the secret search for accommodation -- Johnson : Castro reaches out -- Nixon and Ford : Kissinger's Caribbean d'tente -- Carter : close, but no cigar -- Reagan and Bush : diplomatic necessity -- Clinton : from calibrated response to parallel positive steps -- George W. Bush : turning back the clock -- Obama : a new beginning? -- Intimate adversaries, possible friends.
Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba - beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo - this book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande and Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Castro after the missile crisis, to Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Obama's promise of a 'new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future.
English.
9781469617633
Negotiation---United States----History.
Negotiation---Cuba----History
Reconciliation ----History
United States---Foreign relations---1945-1989.
Cuba---Foreign relations---United States
E183.8.C9 / L384 2014
LAS 327.73 LEO
Back channel to Cuba : the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana / William M. LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 2014 - 524 p. : illus. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Rebuilding bridges -- Eisenhower : patience and forbearance -- Kennedy : the secret search for accommodation -- Johnson : Castro reaches out -- Nixon and Ford : Kissinger's Caribbean d'tente -- Carter : close, but no cigar -- Reagan and Bush : diplomatic necessity -- Clinton : from calibrated response to parallel positive steps -- George W. Bush : turning back the clock -- Obama : a new beginning? -- Intimate adversaries, possible friends.
Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual hostility between the United States and Cuba - beyond invasions, covert operations, assassination plots using poison pens and exploding seashells, and a grinding economic embargo - this book chronicles a surprising, untold history of bilateral efforts toward rapprochement and reconciliation. Since 1959, conflict and aggression have dominated the story of U.S.-Cuban relations. Now, LeoGrande and Kornbluh present a new and increasingly more relevant account. From Kennedy's offering of an olive branch to Castro after the missile crisis, to Kissinger's top secret quest for normalization, to Obama's promise of a 'new approach, LeoGrande and Kornbluh reveal a fifty-year record of dialogue and negotiations, both open and furtive, indicating a path toward better relations in the future.
English.
9781469617633
Negotiation---United States----History.
Negotiation---Cuba----History
Reconciliation ----History
United States---Foreign relations---1945-1989.
Cuba---Foreign relations---United States
E183.8.C9 / L384 2014
LAS 327.73 LEO
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