William M Leogrande
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3626953 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William M Leogrande |
| NOMBRES | William M |
| APELLIDO | Leogrande |
| FIRMA | LEOGRANDE W M |
| AFILIACIONES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3723-8245 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1977 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Cuba en 2024
Cuba Emerging From Covid
Cuba experienced continuing economic and political crises throughout 2022, prolonging a slump that resulted from COVIDâ s impact, the effects of US sanctions, and muddled economic policies. The popular anger and frustration that erupted in nationwide protests on July 11, 2021, deepened into a crisis of legitimacy for the government: the foundational social compact of the Revolutionâ to provide social equity and economic security for allâ was not …
Fight or Hide
Pushing on an Open Door? Ethnic Foreign Policy Lobbies and the Cuban American Case
Journal Article Pushing on an Open Door? Ethnic Foreign Policy Lobbies and the Cuban American Case Get access William M LeoGrande William M LeoGrande American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 438–456, https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orz015 Published: 01 May 2019
Adjusting to a Changing World
The Power to Convene
The Ideological Challenges of Cuban Socialism
Reversing the Irreversible
President Barack Obama intended to make his opening to Cuba "irreversible" before he left office. This chapter examines the state of relations at the end of the Obama administration; what was accomplished and what remained to be done. It then describes the transition to President Donald Trump’s new policy, tracing what he said during the campaign; the debate over Cuba inside the administration; and the initial policy steps taken in the first six …
Cien Años de Lucha
Introduction
Introduction:Cuba Looks to the Future William M. LeoGrande (bio) the dramatic announcement on december 17, 2014, by president Barack Obama and President Raúl Castro that the United States and Cuba would begin the process of normalizing relations took the world by surprise and garnered broad international support. Ending this last vestige of the Cold War in the Caribbean came as a relief to Latin America, which saw Washington's hostility as an ana…
Updating Cuban Socialism
Updating Cuban Socialism:The Politics of Economic Renovation William M. LeoGrande (bio) "either we change course—because we no longer have time to keep on skirting around the precipice—or we will sink," President Raúl Castro warned. "It is the life of the Revolution that is at stake." Castro minced no words in his address to Cuba's National Assembly in December 2010, just months after unveiling his comprehensive program for "updating" the Cuban e…
A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations
Back channel to Cuba the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. This book tells the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations. It examines the ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, this book chronicles a surp…
A Policy Long Past Its Expiration Date
The embargo against Cuba is the oldest and most comprehensive U.S. economic sanctions regime against any country in the world. It comprises a complex patchwork of laws and presidential determinations imposed over half a century. Presidents have tightened or relaxed it to suit their own strategy—some seeking to punish the Cuban regime by economic pressure, other seeking to improve relations by resorting to soft power rather than hard. The impact o…
Normalizing US-Cuba relations
President Barack Obama explained his historic reversal of half a century of US antagonism towards Cuba as necessary because of the failure of the policy of hostility pursued by his ten predecessors. But the old policy's failure was not new, and thus was not, in itself, an adequate explanation for the dramatic shift. This article uses theories of agenda-setting, policy failure and policy change to explain the persistence of the US policy of hostil…
Cuba's Perilous Political Transition to the Post-Castro Era
In the years since Raúl Castro took office as president following Fidel Castro's illness and retirement, Cuba has embarked on four major transitions almost simultaneously: a restructuring of elite decision-making; a transformation of Cuba's centrally-planned economy into a market socialist economy; a relaxation of tight social control, providing greater social autonomy for civil society and even a degree of political decompression; and, a transit…
Back Channel to Cuba
History is being made in U.S.-Cuban relations. This book tells the real story behind the stunning December 17, 2014, announcement by President Obama and President Castro of their move to restore full diplomatic relations. It examines the ongoing efforts toward normalization in a new era of engagement. Challenging the conventional wisdom of perpetual conflict and aggression between the United States and Cuba since 1959, this book chronicles a surp…
Making-Up Is Hard to Do
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam M. LeoGrandeWilliam M. LeoGrande is Dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington. He is the author of Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992 (North Carolina University Press, 2000)
Cranky Neighbors
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A Poverty of Imagination
Washington's challenge during George W. Bush's presidency was to define a new relationship with Latin America beyond free trade and neoliberal economics - a relationship responsive to the region's demand for social and economic justice. Preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration failed this challenge. The president left his Latin American policy in the hands of conservative cold warriors who reacted with hostility to…
North-South Visions of Central America
The United States Discovers Panama: The Writings of Soldiers, Scholars, Scientists, and Scoundrels, 1850–1905. Edited by Michael LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004. Pp. 336. $65.00 cloth.) How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal. By Ovidio Diaz Espino. (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001. Pp. 320. $16.00 cloth.) Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the …
Democracy Delayed
Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro's Cuba. By Juan J. López. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 272p. $42.50. When the Berlin wall came down, many Cuban-Americans eagerly anticipated the imminent fall of Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba. “Next Christmas in Havana,” read the bumper stickers in Miami. But most scholars studying Cuba doubted that Castro would be so easily dislodged. They cited manifest differences between Cuban and Eur…
Tug of War
2002). Tug of War: How Real Is the Rivalry between Congress and the President over Foreign Policy? Congress & the Presidency: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 113-118
Cuba's Quest for Economic Independence
Since the colonial era Cuba has been the paradigmatic case of a monocultural export economy, dependent upon the production of one primary commodity - sugar - for sale to one principal trade partner. Overcoming dependency was a high priority for Fidel Castro in 1959, yet despite a promising start, his efforts proved ultimately unsuccessful. Only the collapse of communism in Europe freed Cuba from dependent trade relations with the Soviet Union - a…
Our Own Backyard
Journal Article Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977–1992. By William M. LeoGrande. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 773 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2395-3.) Get access Stephen M. Streeter Stephen M. Streeter McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Pages 312–313, https:/…
The Party in Uniform
This article is an effort to establish a comparative theoretical framework for the study of civil-military relations in communist political systems. Although the literature on civil-military relations in polyarchic and praetorian polities is theoretically as well as empirically rich, theories of civil-military relations in the field of comparative communism are still at the preliminary stage of development. It is argued that civil-military relati…
The House Divided
This study analyzes voting patterns in the House of Representatives on aid to the Nicaraguan contras during the 98th, 99th, and 100th Congresses, in order to examine three theoretical issues: the importance of ideology as a determinant of congressional voting behavior, the relative importance of conversion and member replacement in explaining congressional policy shifts, and the impact of changes in contextual factors on members' voting decisions…
Our Own Backyard
This text examines history of US foreign policy toward Central America in waning years of Cold From military clashes fought on ground in Central America to bitter political discord that wrenched apart Washington, authoer chronicles dramatic struggles that characterized what he calls the last battle of Col War
Cuba's Quest for Economic Independence
Since the colonial era Cuba has been the paradigmatic case of a monocultural export economy, dependent upon the production of one primary commodity - sugar - for sale to one principal trade partner. Overcoming dependency was a high priority for Fidel Castro in 1959, yet despite a promising start, his efforts proved ultimately unsuccessful. Only the collapse of communism in Europe freed Cuba from dependent trade relations with the Soviet Union - a…
Making the economy scream
From 1981 to 1990, the USA engaged in a concerted and multifaceted campaign to overthrow the government of Nicaragua-a policy that was highly controversial domestically and culminated in the Iran-contra scandal. In the history of US attempts to destabilise other governments, the effort against Nicaragua stands out as one of the most intensive and long-lasting. The covert paramilitary dimension of Washington's policy is well known and quite compre…
The Revolution in Nicaragua
A Poverty of Imagination
Washington's challenge during George W. Bush's presidency was to define a new relationship with Latin America beyond free trade and neoliberal economics - a relationship responsive to the region's demand for social and economic justice. Preoccupied by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration failed this challenge. The president left his Latin American policy in the hands of conservative cold warriors who reacted with hostility to…
Enemies Evermore
When Cuban MiGs blasted two civilian planes out of the sky over the Straits of Florida on February 24 1996, they also destroyed any chance of improved relations between Cuba and the United States as long as Fidel Castro remains in power. In Washington, outrage over the shoot-down resurrected the Helms-Burton bill, the most punitive legislation on Cuba since the early 1960s. On 12 March, President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law as the Cuban…
Political Parties and Democracy in Central America
A Splendid Little War
Cuba's Policy in Africa, 1959-1980
Normalizing US-Cuba relations
President Barack Obama explained his historic reversal of half a century of US antagonism towards Cuba as necessary because of the failure of the policy of hostility pursued by his ten predecessors. But the old policy's failure was not new, and thus was not, in itself, an adequate explanation for the dramatic shift. This article uses theories of agenda-setting, policy failure and policy change to explain the persistence of the US policy of hostil…
Cuba's Perilous Political Transition to the Post-Castro Era
In the years since Raúl Castro took office as president following Fidel Castro's illness and retirement, Cuba has embarked on four major transitions almost simultaneously: a restructuring of elite decision-making; a transformation of Cuba's centrally-planned economy into a market socialist economy; a relaxation of tight social control, providing greater social autonomy for civil society and even a degree of political decompression; and, a transit…
Cuba Policy Recycled
The Communist Party of Cuba Since the First Congress
The main concern of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in recent years has been to lead and supervise the implementation of the resolutions adopted at its First Congress in 1975. Those resolutions cover a broad range of political, social, and economic issues, so that a full account of the Party's work over the past 5 years would require a complete survey of Cuba's domestic and foreign policies during that period.1 The very breadth of the PCC's wor…
The politics of revolutionary development
This paper examines the process of building a new political system in revolutionary Cuba, as reflected in the shifing relationship between the armed forces and the communist party. The institution-building process in Cuba was prolonged and difficult, lasting over a decade; this was the result of the unique way in which the Cuban insurrection developed. The Cuban revolution was the first socialist revolution to succeed without a Leninist party in …
Pushing on an Open Door? Ethnic Foreign Policy Lobbies and the Cuban American Case
Journal Article Pushing on an Open Door? Ethnic Foreign Policy Lobbies and the Cuban American Case Get access William M LeoGrande William M LeoGrande American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 16, Issue 3, July 2020, Pages 438–456, https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orz015 Published: 01 May 2019
From Reagan to Bush
Many foreign policy analysts in the United States expected a shift in US policy towards Latin America when George Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as president. Though Bush had been a loyal supporter of Reagan's policies throughout the preceding eight years, Bush nevertheless seemed more pragmatic than his mentor. Whereas Reagan was the leader of the Republican Party's right wing, Bush was a scion of the East Coast Republican establishment, stronghol…
Oligarchs and Officers
Party Development in Revolutionary Cuba
During the Cuban revolution's first decade, Fidel Castro's charismatic authority and predominant position eclipsed the significance of the new institutions created to replace the prerevolutionary political order. The "institutionalization" under way in Cuba since 1970, however, has strengthened and formalized the political structure to the extent that the island's institutions can no longer be regarded as peripheral to the dynamics of Cuban polit…
The Power to Convene
Reversing the Irreversible
President Barack Obama intended to make his opening to Cuba "irreversible" before he left office. This chapter examines the state of relations at the end of the Obama administration; what was accomplished and what remained to be done. It then describes the transition to President Donald Trump’s new policy, tracing what he said during the campaign; the debate over Cuba inside the administration; and the initial policy steps taken in the first six …
Updating Cuban Socialism
Updating Cuban Socialism:The Politics of Economic Renovation William M. LeoGrande (bio) "either we change course—because we no longer have time to keep on skirting around the precipice—or we will sink," President Raúl Castro warned. "It is the life of the Revolution that is at stake." Castro minced no words in his address to Cuba's National Assembly in December 2010, just months after unveiling his comprehensive program for "updating" the Cuban e…
When the Third World Matters
Rollback or Containment? The United States, Nicaragua, and the Search for Peace in Central America
The Demilitarization of the Cuban Revolution
An Investigation into the “Young Marx” Controversy
Marx, Feuerbach, and the Essence of Man
The politics of revolutionary development
This paper examines the process of building a new political system in revolutionary Cuba, as reflected in the shifing relationship between the armed forces and the communist party. The institution-building process in Cuba was prolonged and difficult, lasting over a decade; this was the result of the unique way in which the Cuban insurrection developed. The Cuban revolution was the first socialist revolution to succeed without a Leninist party in …
Party Development in Revolutionary Cuba
During the Cuban revolution's first decade, Fidel Castro's charismatic authority and predominant position eclipsed the significance of the new institutions created to replace the prerevolutionary political order. The "institutionalization" under way in Cuba since 1970, however, has strengthened and formalized the political structure to the extent that the island's institutions can no longer be regarded as peripheral to the dynamics of Cuban polit…
The Revolution in Nicaragua
Cuba's Policy in Africa, 1959-1980
Class and Conflict in El Salvador
Oligarchs and Officers
The Communist Party of Cuba Since the First Congress
The main concern of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in recent years has been to lead and supervise the implementation of the resolutions adopted at its First Congress in 1975. Those resolutions cover a broad range of political, social, and economic issues, so that a full account of the Party's work over the past 5 years would require a complete survey of Cuba's domestic and foreign policies during that period.1 The very breadth of the PCC's wor…
A Splendid Little War
Two Decades of Socialism in Cuba
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Cuba Policy Recycled
The Party in Uniform
This article is an effort to establish a comparative theoretical framework for the study of civil-military relations in communist political systems. Although the literature on civil-military relations in polyarchic and praetorian polities is theoretically as well as empirically rich, theories of civil-military relations in the field of comparative communism are still at the preliminary stage of development. It is argued that civil-military relati…
The United States and Latin America
Research Article| January 01 1986 The United States and Latin America William M. LeoGrande William M. LeoGrande Associate Professor of Political Science, American University William M. LeoGrande has written widely on United States relations with Latin America; he is the coeditor of Confronting Revolution: United States Policy in Central America (New York: Pantheon, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Sc…
Rollback or Containment? The United States, Nicaragua, and the Search for Peace in Central America
Inevitable Revolutions
Journal Article Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, by Walter LaFeber Get access Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America by Walter LaFeber. New York, W. W. Norton, 1983. 357 pp. $18.95. William M. LeoGrande William M. LeoGrande The American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 101, Issue 1, Spring 1986, Pages 152–154, …
Nicaragua and the United States under Ronald Reagan
The author traces the evolution of US policy towards Nicaragua since the Sandinista revolution, analysing the shifting pattern of political support and opposition within the United States and the impact of the Iran?Contra affair and the Guatemala Accord, He argues that the policy of the Reagan administration reflects both the Cold War and an earlier US strategic motive to control affairs in Central America, whereas the post?Vietnam policies of th…
From Reagan to Bush
Many foreign policy analysts in the United States expected a shift in US policy towards Latin America when George Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan as president. Though Bush had been a loyal supporter of Reagan's policies throughout the preceding eight years, Bush nevertheless seemed more pragmatic than his mentor. Whereas Reagan was the leader of the Republican Party's right wing, Bush was a scion of the East Coast Republican establishment, stronghol…
The House Divided
This study analyzes voting patterns in the House of Representatives on aid to the Nicaraguan contras during the 98th, 99th, and 100th Congresses, in order to examine three theoretical issues: the importance of ideology as a determinant of congressional voting behavior, the relative importance of conversion and member replacement in explaining congressional policy shifts, and the impact of changes in contextual factors on members' voting decisions…
Political Parties and Democracy in Central America
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When the Third World Matters
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