1st Edition

The Policy of the Ford Administration Toward Cuba Carrot and Stick

By Håkan Karlsson, Tomás Diez Acosta Copyright 2022
234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents new aspects of the U.S. Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford’s presidency (August 9, 1974‒January 20, 1977). Based in governmental and other sources from the U.S. and Cuba, the book examines how the Ford administration broke with Nixon’s hostile policy when the diplomatic and economic isolation of Cuba was ended in the OAS, even when the U.S. economic blockade prevailed. In... Read more

Part 1: The Ford Administration Between Continuity and Rupture

1. The U.S. and the Arrival of President Gerald R. Ford

2. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Break with Nixon’s Cuba Policy

3. The "New Dialogue" and the Failure of the Regional Isolation of Cuba

Part 2: Cuba’s Domestic Transformations and International Perspectives (1974–1976)

4. Domestic Politics in Cuba (1974–1976)

5. Cuba’s Foreign Policy Between 1974 and 1976

6. The U.S. Congress and the Cuba Policy

Part 3: The Secret Talks Between the U.S. and Cuba

7. The Beginning and the Development of Secret Conversations

8. The Meeting at Hotel Pierre

9. From a Warm Summer to a Chilly Autumn

Part 4: The Impact of the Cuban Mission in Angola

10. The Civil War in Angola and the Covert Participation of the U.S.

11. The Cuban Support and the Independence of Angola

12. The Defeat of the Invaders and the Punishment of Cuba

Part 5: The Conservative Offensive in Latin America and the Cuban Counterrevolution

13. The Reactionary Wave in Latin America

14. Actions by Terrorist Organizations of Cuban Origin (1974–1975)

15. Counterrevolutionary Terrorism in 1976

Biography

Håkan Karlsson is Full Professor in Archaeology at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tomás Diez Acosta is Professor and Researcher at the Instituto de Historia de Cuba.