Piero Gleijeses
Biographic Data
| ID | 536645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piero Gleijeses |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piero |
| FAMILY NAME | Gleijeses |
| SIGNATURE | GLEIJESES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
« Le plus authentique des leaders révolutionnaires »: Fidel Castro et la Guerre froide
Cet article analyse l’impact majeur de la politique étrangère cubaine pendant la Guerre froide sur deux régions : l’Amérique latine et l’Afrique. Il étudie également les relations de La Havane avec les États-Unis et avec l’Union soviétique, et évalue dans quelle mesure la politique cubaine était fonction des exigences soviétiques. Il est fondé sur plusieurs années de recherche dans les archives cubaines, américaines et sud-africaines, ainsi que, …
Decolonization and the Cold War
The “hot” Cold War, where blood was shed, was fought in the periphery where it overlapped with the struggle for decolonization. The connections between the Cold War and decolonization depend on the specifics of each case. Vietnam, Suez and southern Africa offer complex studies of the intricate relationship between the two struggles. The colonial powers were impelled by greed and hubris, not the Cold War. The Americans, sympathetic in principle to…
The Cold War: A World History
The Cold War: A Global History is the best single-volume account of that turbulent era. It towers over the standard books in other languages, such as George-Henri Soutou’s La guerre de Cinquante An
Clashing over Cuba: The United States, Spain and Britain, 1853-55
Before 1898, the most sustained attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba occurred during the presidency of Franklin Pierce when the debate about slavery was roiling US domestic politics. Spain responded to the threat with a dramatic change of policy: in order to gain the favour and protection of Britain, it ordered that the slave trade to Cuba be ended. This article analyses Pierce's strategy and examines the complex jockeying it precipitated…
The CIA’s paramilitary operations during the cold war: An assessment
Using a representative sample of CIA paramilitary operations during the Cold War, this essay identifies continuities and discontinuities among administrations and analyses the responses of the US press and Congress to paramilitary operations. It wrestles with the meaning of success and failure. Success is defined, first, in a narrow sense – did the operations achieve the objectives set by the president of the United States? Then, it is defined mo…
Napoleon, Jefferson, and the Louisiana Purchase
Why did Napoleon sell Louisiana to the United States? Unfortunately, he left very few written traces of his Louisiana policy and, therefore, historians disagree. Their explanations tend to emphasise one of three factors: the diplomacy of President Thomas Jefferson; France's coming war with Britain; or the impact of the black rebels of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti). The most heated disagreements revolve around the differi…
Cuba in Africa
The end of Portuguese colonialism ignited the dormant liberation struggles in South Africa and in neighbouring Namibia. Cuba was, as Piero Gleijeses argues in this important exposition on the topic, the catalyst for the transformation of the region from one dominated by white settler minority rule to single party constitutional democracies led by the former liberation movements. The author’s careful use of archival material and interviews from th…
The United States, South Africa, and the Cold War
Piero Gleijeses reviews Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order, by Ryan Irwin
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. This book uses archival sources, particularly fr…
A Test of Wills: Jimmy Carter, South Africa, and the Independence of Namibia
Until 1975, Washington paid little attention to southern Africa, a backwater in the Cold War where weak insurgencies posed little threat to white rule in Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia, and Namibia. The collapse of the Portuguese dictatorship in April 1974 meant the end of white rule in Angola and Mozambique. The Cuban victory in Angola the following year propelled southern Africa into the vortex of the Cold War. Between 1977 and 1981, the Carter a…
A Sordid Affair: The Alliance for Progress and British Guiana
Stephen Rabe has written the best books on both the Eisenhower and the Kennedy administrations’ policies toward Latin America.1 Now he adds U.S. Intervention in British Guiana, a superb study of the efforts of three successive administrations, from Eisenhower through Johnson, to save one country from international communism. In August 1957, the victory of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) at the polls in British Guiana brought Cheddi Jagan, an…
Cuba and the Independence of Namibia
This article examines Cuba's contribution to the independence of Namibia. It focuses on the Cuban response to the massacre of Cassinga in 1978 and the successful Cuban offensive against the South African army in southern Angola in 1988. It is based on documents from the closed Cuban archives, on US documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and on the South African and Namibian press
Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988
Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from the closed Cuban archives, from U.S. archives, and from the former East German archives, as well as published materials, this article explores the role that Cuba played in Africa after its dramatic dispatch of 36,000 soldiers to Angola in late 1975 and the first few months of 1976. The article focuses on the two most important aspects of Cuba's policy in Africa after 1976: its intervention in Ethiop…
Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988
This article explores the role that Cuba played in Africa after its dispatch of 36,000 soldiers to Angola in late 1975 and the first few months of 1976. The article focuses on the two most important aspects of Cuba's policy in Africa after 1976: its intervention in Ethiopia in 1977–1978; and its continuing presence in Angola, a presence that continued until 1991. The article analyzes Cuba's motivations, the extent to which Fidel Castro's policy w…
A Brush with Mexico
On 13 May 1846—two days after President James Polk had informed Congress that Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande and that American blood had been shed on American soil—the Washington National Intelligencer published a letter from a Whig representative from Maine, Luther Severance: “It is ...on Mexican soil that blood has been shed. The war has not been commenced by Mexico but by the President of the United States, without the authority of …
The opposition to the Spanish-American war
This article focuses on the months before the Spanish-American war began in April 1898 and addresses two related questions: first, why was the opposition to the war so strong in the United States; second, why did it not prevail? To explore these questions, the papers of the McKinley administration are examined, along with the Congressional Record and forty-one US newspapers, as well as twelve major European newspapers (British, French, German and…
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Appearance of Protease Activities Coincides with p10 and Polyhedrin‐Driven Protein Production in the Baculovirus Expression System: Effects on Yield
A study of proteolysis effects on recombinant protein yield was completed using the insect cell (Sf‐9) ‐baculovirus (AcNPV) expression system. Activities of protease and β‐galactosidase (β‐gal), a marker heterologous protein, were assayed at various multiplicities of infection (MOI = 1, 5, and 20) on a time course postinfection. Also, several protein−substrate gel electrophoresis assays were run using gelatin, β‐gal, and bovine serum albumin (BSA…
Grappling With Guatemala's Horror
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The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950
Journal Article The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950. By Charles D. Ameringer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xii, 180 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01451-2. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-271-01452-0.) Get access Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence
As the rebels of Guinea-Bissau fought for independence from Portugal, Cuban military instructors stood by their side and Cuban doctors treated their wounds. Joining the rebellion in 1966, and remaining through the war's end in 1974, this was the longest Cuban intervention in Africa before the despatch of troops to Angola in November 1975. It was also the most successful. As the Guinean paper Nõ Pintcha declared, 'The Cubans' solidarity was decisi…
Truth or Credibility: Castro, Carter, and the Invasions of Shaba
an attempt to oust President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, one of the West's principal allies in Africa, in 1977 and 1978, guerrillas based in Angola invaded the Zairean province of Shaba. In so doing, they exposed Mobutu's weakness, triggered the intervention of foreign troops to bolster up his regime, and showed the limits of the US president, Jimmy Carter's, human-rights policy in Africa. What added spice to the story was the claim that Cuba had …
Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965
It was in Algeria that Cuba's involvement in Africa began. Until the overthrow of President Ben Bella in 1965, Algeria was Cuba's closest friend on the continent. Cuba provided both military and civilian assistance not only to the Algerian republic but also, before their victory, to the rebels of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Using Cuban documents, as well as US documents and interviews with protagonists, this article examines Cuba's re…
Ships in the Night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs
A comprehensive study of the available documents about the Bay of Pigs, including many that have been declassified within the last eighteen months, and extensive interviews with the protagonists in the CIA, the White House and the State Department lead me to conclude that the disastrous operation was launched not simply because Kennedy was poorly served by his young staff and was the captive of his campaign rhetoric, nor simply because of the hub…
"Flee! The White Giants Are Coming!": The United States, the Mercenaries, and the Congo, 1964?65
On 14 August 1964, Carl Rowan, the prominent black journalist who was then the director of the United States Information Agency, wrote President Lyndon B. Johnson that he sensed "a real danger that in saving the present situation in the Congo we ... could lose the longer range struggle for all of Africa. I am particularly concerned about the damaging implications of possible press reports that United States' planes are hauling in Belgian guns to …
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed, and over the decolonization of Namibia, Africa's last colony. Beyond lay the great prize: South Africa. This book uses archival sources, particularly fr…
Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988
This article explores the role that Cuba played in Africa after its dispatch of 36,000 soldiers to Angola in late 1975 and the first few months of 1976. The article focuses on the two most important aspects of Cuba's policy in Africa after 1976: its intervention in Ethiopia in 1977–1978; and its continuing presence in Angola, a presence that continued until 1991. The article analyzes Cuba's motivations, the extent to which Fidel Castro's policy w…
Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965
It was in Algeria that Cuba's involvement in Africa began. Until the overthrow of President Ben Bella in 1965, Algeria was Cuba's closest friend on the continent. Cuba provided both military and civilian assistance not only to the Algerian republic but also, before their victory, to the rebels of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Using Cuban documents, as well as US documents and interviews with protagonists, this article examines Cuba's re…
Juan José Arévalo and the Caribbean Legion
On 15 March 1945 Juan José Arévalo became president of Guatemala. His inauguration marked the beginning of an unprecedented democratic parenthesis - 'spring in the land of eternal tyranny '1- a spring that ended abruptly with the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954.Arévalo was an anti-communist, a nationalist, and a reformer. He was an anti-communist who believed that individual communists should not be persecuted unless they violated the law. He …
Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa 1975–1988
Drawing on thousands of pages of documents from the closed Cuban archives, from U.S. archives, and from the former East German archives, as well as published materials, this article explores the role that Cuba played in Africa after its dramatic dispatch of 36,000 soldiers to Angola in late 1975 and the first few months of 1976. The article focuses on the two most important aspects of Cuba's policy in Africa after 1976: its intervention in Ethiop…
Truth or Credibility: Castro, Carter, and the Invasions of Shaba
an attempt to oust President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, one of the West's principal allies in Africa, in 1977 and 1978, guerrillas based in Angola invaded the Zairean province of Shaba. In so doing, they exposed Mobutu's weakness, triggered the intervention of foreign troops to bolster up his regime, and showed the limits of the US president, Jimmy Carter's, human-rights policy in Africa. What added spice to the story was the claim that Cuba had …
The Agrarian Reform of Jacobo Arbenz
The cry for land is, without any doubt, the loudest, the most dramatic and the most desperate sound in Guatemala.' So wrote the Guatemalan bishops in 1988. In their country's long history, the bishops stated, only one president - Jacobo Arbenz - had addressed the issue of land reform.1Inaugurated in 1951, Arbenz presided over the most successful agrarian reform in the history of Central America. The reports of the US embassy bear testimony to the…
The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence
As the rebels of Guinea-Bissau fought for independence from Portugal, Cuban military instructors stood by their side and Cuban doctors treated their wounds. Joining the rebellion in 1966, and remaining through the war's end in 1974, this was the longest Cuban intervention in Africa before the despatch of troops to Angola in November 1975. It was also the most successful. As the Guinean paper Nõ Pintcha declared, 'The Cubans' solidarity was decisi…
The CIA’s paramilitary operations during the cold war: An assessment
Using a representative sample of CIA paramilitary operations during the Cold War, this essay identifies continuities and discontinuities among administrations and analyses the responses of the US press and Congress to paramilitary operations. It wrestles with the meaning of success and failure. Success is defined, first, in a narrow sense – did the operations achieve the objectives set by the president of the United States? Then, it is defined mo…
Cuba and the Independence of Namibia
This article examines Cuba's contribution to the independence of Namibia. It focuses on the Cuban response to the massacre of Cassinga in 1978 and the successful Cuban offensive against the South African army in southern Angola in 1988. It is based on documents from the closed Cuban archives, on US documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and on the South African and Namibian press
Ships in the Night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs
A comprehensive study of the available documents about the Bay of Pigs, including many that have been declassified within the last eighteen months, and extensive interviews with the protagonists in the CIA, the White House and the State Department lead me to conclude that the disastrous operation was launched not simply because Kennedy was poorly served by his young staff and was the captive of his campaign rhetoric, nor simply because of the hub…
The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Spanish America
Sir, is there to be no limit to our benevolence for these People? There is a point, beyond which, even parental bounty and natural affection cease to impose an obligation. That point has been attained with the States of Spanish America.1Of course there was sympathy for the Spanish American rebels in the United States. How could it have been otherwise? The rebels were fighting Spain, long an object of hatred and contempt. This alone justified good…
The Case for Power Sharing in El Salvador
The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950
Journal Article The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950. By Charles D. Ameringer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xii, 180 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01451-2. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-271-01452-0.) Get access Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
Resist Romanticism
The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention
The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention
The Case for Power Sharing in El Salvador
Resist Romanticism
The Reagan Doctrine and Central America
Research Article| December 01 1986 The Reagan Doctrine and Central America Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses Adjunct Professor of American Foreign Policy and Latin American Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Piero Gleijeses is the author of The Dominican Crisis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America (Washington, D.C.: The Johns Hopkins Foreign Poli…
The Decay of Democracy in Argentina
Essay| January 01 1988 The Decay of Democracy in Argentina Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses Associate Professor of American Foreign Policy and Latin American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Piero Gleijeses is the author of Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America (Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1982) and The Dominican Crisis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978). Search for other works by this author…
Juan José Arévalo and the Caribbean Legion
On 15 March 1945 Juan José Arévalo became president of Guatemala. His inauguration marked the beginning of an unprecedented democratic parenthesis - 'spring in the land of eternal tyranny '1- a spring that ended abruptly with the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954.Arévalo was an anti-communist, a nationalist, and a reformer. He was an anti-communist who believed that individual communists should not be persecuted unless they violated the law. He …
The Agrarian Reform of Jacobo Arbenz
The cry for land is, without any doubt, the loudest, the most dramatic and the most desperate sound in Guatemala.' So wrote the Guatemalan bishops in 1988. In their country's long history, the bishops stated, only one president - Jacobo Arbenz - had addressed the issue of land reform.1Inaugurated in 1951, Arbenz presided over the most successful agrarian reform in the history of Central America. The reports of the US embassy bear testimony to the…
Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism
Stephen Rabe's timely book examines President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Latin American policy and assesses the president's actions in light of recent revisionism.During his first term, Eisenhower paid little attention to Latin America but his objective there was clear: to prevent communism from gaining a foothold. The Eisenhower administration was prepared to cooperate with authoritarian military regimes, but not to fund developmental aid or vigorou…
The Death of Francisco Arana: A Turning Point in the Guatemalan Revolution
In the late morning of 18 July 1949, several armed men sped from Guatemala City in two cars. Near a small bridge, the Puente de la Gloria, they waited for Francisco Arana, Chief of the Armed Forces of Guatemala. They did not have to wait for long. As Arana and his three companions approached the Puente de la Gloria, 'there was, on the other side, a grey Dodge, because of which, seeing that it was impossible to cross the bridge, Col. Arana stopped…
To Make a World Safe for Revolution: Cuba's Foreign Policy
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
The Limits of Sympathy: The United States and the Independence of Spanish America
Sir, is there to be no limit to our benevolence for these People? There is a point, beyond which, even parental bounty and natural affection cease to impose an obligation. That point has been attained with the States of Spanish America.1Of course there was sympathy for the Spanish American rebels in the United States. How could it have been otherwise? The rebels were fighting Spain, long an object of hatred and contempt. This alone justified good…
Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954
Paz, Progreso, Justicia, y Honradez: Das Ubico-Regime in Guatemala, 1931-1944
"Flee! The White Giants Are Coming!": The United States, the Mercenaries, and the Congo, 1964?65
On 14 August 1964, Carl Rowan, the prominent black journalist who was then the director of the United States Information Agency, wrote President Lyndon B. Johnson that he sensed "a real danger that in saving the present situation in the Congo we ... could lose the longer range struggle for all of Africa. I am particularly concerned about the damaging implications of possible press reports that United States' planes are hauling in Belgian guns to …
Ships in the Night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs
A comprehensive study of the available documents about the Bay of Pigs, including many that have been declassified within the last eighteen months, and extensive interviews with the protagonists in the CIA, the White House and the State Department lead me to conclude that the disastrous operation was launched not simply because Kennedy was poorly served by his young staff and was the captive of his campaign rhetoric, nor simply because of the hub…
Truth or Credibility: Castro, Carter, and the Invasions of Shaba
an attempt to oust President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, one of the West's principal allies in Africa, in 1977 and 1978, guerrillas based in Angola invaded the Zairean province of Shaba. In so doing, they exposed Mobutu's weakness, triggered the intervention of foreign troops to bolster up his regime, and showed the limits of the US president, Jimmy Carter's, human-rights policy in Africa. What added spice to the story was the claim that Cuba had …
Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961-1965
It was in Algeria that Cuba's involvement in Africa began. Until the overthrow of President Ben Bella in 1965, Algeria was Cuba's closest friend on the continent. Cuba provided both military and civilian assistance not only to the Algerian republic but also, before their victory, to the rebels of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Using Cuban documents, as well as US documents and interviews with protagonists, this article examines Cuba's re…
Grappling With Guatemala's Horror
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
The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950
Journal Article The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950. By Charles D. Ameringer. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. xii, 180 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01451-2. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-271-01452-0.) Get access Piero Gleijeses Piero Gleijeses Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schola…
The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence
As the rebels of Guinea-Bissau fought for independence from Portugal, Cuban military instructors stood by their side and Cuban doctors treated their wounds. Joining the rebellion in 1966, and remaining through the war's end in 1974, this was the longest Cuban intervention in Africa before the despatch of troops to Angola in November 1975. It was also the most successful. As the Guinean paper Nõ Pintcha declared, 'The Cubans' solidarity was decisi…
Appearance of Protease Activities Coincides with p10 and Polyhedrin‐Driven Protein Production in the Baculovirus Expression System: Effects on Yield
A study of proteolysis effects on recombinant protein yield was completed using the insect cell (Sf‐9) ‐baculovirus (AcNPV) expression system. Activities of protease and β‐galactosidase (β‐gal), a marker heterologous protein, were assayed at various multiplicities of infection (MOI = 1, 5, and 20) on a time course postinfection. Also, several protein−substrate gel electrophoresis assays were run using gelatin, β‐gal, and bovine serum albumin (BSA…
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976
The opposition to the Spanish-American war
This article focuses on the months before the Spanish-American war began in April 1898 and addresses two related questions: first, why was the opposition to the war so strong in the United States; second, why did it not prevail? To explore these questions, the papers of the McKinley administration are examined, along with the Congressional Record and forty-one US newspapers, as well as twelve major European newspapers (British, French, German and…
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