Author: MARK FALCOFF
Title: Cuba the Morning After
Description: AEI Press, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 291. Cuba the Morning After is a major study of U.S.-Cuban relations, comparing past and present, underscoring the huge changes that have occurred in the U.S. and world economy since the triumph of the Revolution. It argues that both opponents and sympathizers of Castro's Cuba are bound to be disappointed by what lies ahead for the island, and what that means for the United States. In Cuba the Morning After AEI scholar Mark Falcoff argues against the assumption that after Fidel Castro is gone, Cuba will inevitably become a free-market democracy. Rather, he suggests, the island is mired in history and fantasy-in thrall to an economic and social system that does not work and cannot work. Fear of the future, declining demographics, a culture of dependency and a tendency to opt out for emigration to the United States, add to the mixture. Cuba was once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America, financed by an assured place in the U.S. sugar market. But since 1960 the old Cuban quota is in ruins. What can replace it? Foreign investment? Tourism? The return of the Miami emigre business community? If not, what then? Will an economically unviable Cuba-with all the restraints removed-. ISBN: 9780844741758. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780844741758


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