Gary Prevost
Biographic Data
| ID | 720278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Prevost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Prevost |
| SIGNATURE | PREVOST G |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0832-7409 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bengelsdorf, Carollee. Clandestinas: Women in the Cuban Revolutionary Underground, 1955–1959
United States Middle East Policy in the Age of Donald Trump
This essay on the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East in the middle of the second Trump administration and the continuing conflict in Gaza and the West Bank makes the case for decades of consistency in US policy but also some nuances from the current US administration. The author makes the case that there have been three constants in US policy since the era of the Second World War. First, is the guarantee the flow of reasonably…
Global geopolitical confrontations in the post-Cold War era and the role of Cuba
The authors begin from the premise that it is useful to analyse broad trends in international affairs by identifying key moments of change. The primary focus is the current phase of international affairs that has been labelled the post-Cold War world. The authors accept that the fall of the USSR at the end of 1991 marked an important change in geopolitics but argue that the 30-year time period since the fall of the Soviet Union has been marked by…
The Economic Freedom Fighters of South Africa: What do they Stand for, and who Votes for them
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have emerged as a significant force in South African politics during the past eight years. Still, only a few scholarly studies have been published analysing its ideology, strategy, and tactics, who is voting for the party, and why. The authors argue that the EFF had emerged as a challenger to the African National Congress (ANC) by positioning itself to the left of the ruling party with a set of ideas and policy…
Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: Review of The Politics of Protest in South Africa’s Contentious Democracy
The Trump Administration in Latin America: Continuity and Change
Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election without a clearly articulated policy for either Cuba or the Latin American/Caribbean region as a whole. Two years into that presidency, this article seeks to describe that policy and place it within Trump's wider foreign policy. The article deconstructs the worldview of ‘America First’ as lying within the perspective of the neo-conservative wing of the Republican Party, epitomised by John Bolton,…
Exporting Revolution: Cuba's Global Solidarity by Margaret Randall
Cuba's Relations with Latin America
Cuba's Relations with Latin America Carlos Oliva Campos (bio) and Gary Prevost (bio) in the summer of 2015, cuba reestablished full diplomatic relations with the United States after a hiatus of more than 50 years. That event, which included the reopening of the US embassy in Havana by US Secretary of State John Kerry, marked the full integration of Cuba into hemispheric affairs, as Cuba now has full diplomatic relations with each country in the h…
Born (Un)free: The Construction of Citizenship of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation—Views of University Students
South Africa is in the midst of a mass transformation project. This project aims to transform society to an inclusive and united polity based on the principles of non-racialism, equality and diversity. This project, underpinned by the political agenda of the National Democratic Revolution, however has not been easy. At the dawn of democracy, South African society was deeply divided socially, politically and economically along racial lines. The tr…
Cuba in the Western Hemisphere: What Has Changed
On 17 December 2014, the presidents of Cuba and the US, Raúl Castro and Barack Obama, announced simultaneously to the world the decision of an exchange of prisoners releasing the three Cuban intelligence operatives still in jail in American prisons – Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero – and the subcontractor Alan Gross, imprisoned in the island. Together with Gross, a CIA agent of Cuban origin was also released, and an agreeme…
Presidential elections in Latin America: The ascent of the left
Presidential elections in Latin America: The ascent of the left." The Social Science Journal, 51(2), pp. 326–327
The Battle for the Bay’: The 2011 Local Government Elections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
The 2011 Local Government elections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) represented the beginning of a potentially significant shift in the political landscape of South Africa. The Democratic Alliance increased its vote total from the 2006 Local Government Elections by 14.8% to 40.2% and won 10 single member ward districts previously held by the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC held on to its majority position but gained only 51…
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America: Confrontation or Co-optation
In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based 'piqueteros' of Argentina that brought down three governments in the space of a month in 2001 to the indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia that were instrumental in toppling five governments …
Reflections on the Cuban Revolution
United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History
United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship. The overall approach, mirroring the political science background of both authors, does not focus on historical detail that has been provided by many other works, but rather on a broad analysis of trends and patterns that have marked the long relationship between the two countries. Dominguez and Prevost argue that U.S. policy toward Cuba is d…
From Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties
This volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties. T
The Bush Doctrine and Latin America
This volume focuses on the contemporary political, economic and security affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Following a decade of focus on economic matters around the Free Trade Area of the Americas (
The evolution of the African National Congress in power: From revolutionaries to social democrats
This research on the African National Congress (ANC) is done in the context of the question of what happens when a revolutionary, rebel movement succeeds in taking state power. It is now 12 years since 1994, when, as the result of national elections negotiated with the former National Party (NP) rulers, the ANC took the reins of governmental power. The analysis will place the challenges of the ANC in the context of rebel movements in Latin Americ…
Contesting Free Trade: The Development of the Anti-FTAA Movement in the Streets and in the Corridors of State Power
The effort to unite the economies of the western hemisphere into a single free trade agreement was initiated at the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994. The timetable established was for completion of the agreement by 2005. This article analyzes the efforts that have arisen over the last six years in opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Opposition coming from both governments in Latin America and civil socie…
The Free Trade Area of the Americas in the Context of U.S.-Latin American Relations
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is an international trade agreement that aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to the free flow of money, goods, and services across borders in the Western hemisphere (excluding Cuba) to create one large, open, and integrated market. The FTAA falls within the wider free trade and free markets approach promoted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (…
Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution
The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution
Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan revolution-six years after the Sandinista electoral defeat
On 25 April 1990 Violeta Chamorro assumed the presidency of Nicaragua, two months after her National Opposition Union (UNO) coalition scored a decisive electoral victory ending 11 years of rule by the revolutionary Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The backers of President Chamorro both inside and outside of Nicaragua expected her administration to move quickly to dismantle the revolutionary projects of the Sandinistas. This article wi…
Democracy and socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
The Spanish peace movement in a European context
The sharp decline of the Spanish peace movement in the latter part of the 1980s paralleled quite closely the decline of similar movements elsewhere in Western Europe, particularly the United Kingdom and Germany. There has been considerable research carried out into the rise of the ‘new social movements’ in Western Europe but little attention has been given to southern Europe, particularly Spain. Also, most of the literature has focused on the per…
The Battle for the Bay’: The 2011 Local Government Elections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
The 2011 Local Government elections in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) represented the beginning of a potentially significant shift in the political landscape of South Africa. The Democratic Alliance increased its vote total from the 2006 Local Government Elections by 14.8% to 40.2% and won 10 single member ward districts previously held by the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC held on to its majority position but gained only 51…
The evolution of the African National Congress in power: From revolutionaries to social democrats
This research on the African National Congress (ANC) is done in the context of the question of what happens when a revolutionary, rebel movement succeeds in taking state power. It is now 12 years since 1994, when, as the result of national elections negotiated with the former National Party (NP) rulers, the ANC took the reins of governmental power. The analysis will place the challenges of the ANC in the context of rebel movements in Latin Americ…
Cuba and Nicaragua: A Special Relationship
The question of the relationship between the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua and their respective ruling parties has become a highly politicized part of the ongoing debate over the Central American policy of the United States. This article will seek to examine that highly charged exchange and explore through historical analysis and an assessment of the current situation the actual nature of that relationship. The article will document the origi…
Contesting Free Trade: The Development of the Anti-FTAA Movement in the Streets and in the Corridors of State Power
The effort to unite the economies of the western hemisphere into a single free trade agreement was initiated at the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994. The timetable established was for completion of the agreement by 2005. This article analyzes the efforts that have arisen over the last six years in opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Opposition coming from both governments in Latin America and civil socie…
Born (Un)free: The Construction of Citizenship of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation—Views of University Students
South Africa is in the midst of a mass transformation project. This project aims to transform society to an inclusive and united polity based on the principles of non-racialism, equality and diversity. This project, underpinned by the political agenda of the National Democratic Revolution, however has not been easy. At the dawn of democracy, South African society was deeply divided socially, politically and economically along racial lines. The tr…
Reflections on the Cuban Revolution
The Nicaraguan revolution-six years after the Sandinista electoral defeat
On 25 April 1990 Violeta Chamorro assumed the presidency of Nicaragua, two months after her National Opposition Union (UNO) coalition scored a decisive electoral victory ending 11 years of rule by the revolutionary Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The backers of President Chamorro both inside and outside of Nicaragua expected her administration to move quickly to dismantle the revolutionary projects of the Sandinistas. This article wi…
The role of the Sandinista revolution in the process of democratization in Nicaragua
This article explores the question of the development of democracy in Nicaragua with emphasis on the period from 1979 to the present. The primary focus is on the role of democracy within the framework of the Sandinista revolution including the 11 years of FSLN state power and the last four years during which the Sandinistas have been the primary opposition party. It is the primary contention of the article that a profound democratization of Nicar…
What Went Wrong? The Sandinista Revolution
Change and continuity in the Spanish labour movement
This article assesses the current state of the Spanish trade union movement. More specifically it examines the results of the 1978, 1980 and 1982 union elections and explores changes occurring within the Spanish working class. It seeks to explain the overall strength and combativity of the Spanish working class as measured by available sociological data and the political events of the past three years. It also analyses the current relationship be…
Eurocommunism and the Spanish communists
This article attempts to place the PCE in the generally‐held views of Eurocommunism and explore the current orientation of the party. Focusing on the ideology and the political practice of the PCE, the thesis is that the PCE is a ‘Eurocommunist’ party in the mould of the French and Italian parties but with obvious differences arising from nearly forty years of underground existence under Franco. The perspectives attached to Eurocommunism in many …
Eurocommunism and the Spanish communists
This article attempts to place the PCE in the generally‐held views of Eurocommunism and explore the current orientation of the party. Focusing on the ideology and the political practice of the PCE, the thesis is that the PCE is a ‘Eurocommunist’ party in the mould of the French and Italian parties but with obvious differences arising from nearly forty years of underground existence under Franco. The perspectives attached to Eurocommunism in many …
Change and continuity in the Spanish labour movement
This article assesses the current state of the Spanish trade union movement. More specifically it examines the results of the 1978, 1980 and 1982 union elections and explores changes occurring within the Spanish working class. It seeks to explain the overall strength and combativity of the Spanish working class as measured by available sociological data and the political events of the past three years. It also analyses the current relationship be…
Cuba and Nicaragua: A Special Relationship
The question of the relationship between the governments of Cuba and Nicaragua and their respective ruling parties has become a highly politicized part of the ongoing debate over the Central American policy of the United States. This article will seek to examine that highly charged exchange and explore through historical analysis and an assessment of the current situation the actual nature of that relationship. The article will document the origi…
Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution
Historical Introduction - from Sandino to Sandinistas. Part I Sandinistas: the ideology of the FSLN the party the party in the state and mass organizations. Part II The party and the Revolution: peasants - Sandinista agrarian policy the bourgeoisie and the Revolution Christians - the Church and the revolution Yankees and Sandinistas Conclusion - the vanguard and the Revolution
Democracy and socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
The Spanish peace movement in a European context
The sharp decline of the Spanish peace movement in the latter part of the 1980s paralleled quite closely the decline of similar movements elsewhere in Western Europe, particularly the United Kingdom and Germany. There has been considerable research carried out into the rise of the ‘new social movements’ in Western Europe but little attention has been given to southern Europe, particularly Spain. Also, most of the literature has focused on the per…
The 1990 Elections in Nicaragua and Their Aftermath
Newsbriefs
What Went Wrong? The Sandinista Revolution
Cuba: After the Cold War. Carmelo Mesa-Lago The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy. Marifeli Pérez-Stable
The role of the Sandinista revolution in the process of democratization in Nicaragua
This article explores the question of the development of democracy in Nicaragua with emphasis on the period from 1979 to the present. The primary focus is on the role of democracy within the framework of the Sandinista revolution including the 11 years of FSLN state power and the last four years during which the Sandinistas have been the primary opposition party. It is the primary contention of the article that a profound democratization of Nicar…
Democracy and Socialism in Sandinista Nicaragua
The Nicaraguan revolution-six years after the Sandinista electoral defeat
On 25 April 1990 Violeta Chamorro assumed the presidency of Nicaragua, two months after her National Opposition Union (UNO) coalition scored a decisive electoral victory ending 11 years of rule by the revolutionary Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). The backers of President Chamorro both inside and outside of Nicaragua expected her administration to move quickly to dismantle the revolutionary projects of the Sandinistas. This article wi…
Education as Contested Terrain: Nicaragua, 1979-1993
The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution
The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution
Politics of Latin America: The Power Game
The Free Trade Area of the Americas in the Context of U.S.-Latin American Relations
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is an international trade agreement that aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to the free flow of money, goods, and services across borders in the Western hemisphere (excluding Cuba) to create one large, open, and integrated market. The FTAA falls within the wider free trade and free markets approach promoted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Trade Organization (…
Contesting Free Trade: The Development of the Anti-FTAA Movement in the Streets and in the Corridors of State Power
The effort to unite the economies of the western hemisphere into a single free trade agreement was initiated at the Summit of the Americas in Miami in 1994. The timetable established was for completion of the agreement by 2005. This article analyzes the efforts that have arisen over the last six years in opposition to the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Opposition coming from both governments in Latin America and civil socie…
The evolution of the African National Congress in power: From revolutionaries to social democrats
This research on the African National Congress (ANC) is done in the context of the question of what happens when a revolutionary, rebel movement succeeds in taking state power. It is now 12 years since 1994, when, as the result of national elections negotiated with the former National Party (NP) rulers, the ANC took the reins of governmental power. The analysis will place the challenges of the ANC in the context of rebel movements in Latin Americ…
From Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties
This volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties. T
The Bush Doctrine and Latin America
This volume focuses on the contemporary political, economic and security affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Following a decade of focus on economic matters around the Free Trade Area of the Americas (
United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History
United States-Cuban Relations breaks new ground in its treatment of this long and tumultuous relationship. The overall approach, mirroring the political science background of both authors, does not focus on historical detail that has been provided by many other works, but rather on a broad analysis of trends and patterns that have marked the long relationship between the two countries. Dominguez and Prevost argue that U.S. policy toward Cuba is d…
Reflections on the Cuban Revolution
Social Movements and Leftist Governments in Latin America: Confrontation or Co-optation
In recent years, the simultaneous development of prominent social movements and the election of left and centre-left governments has radically altered the political landscape in Latin America. These social movements have ranged from the community based 'piqueteros' of Argentina that brought down three governments in the space of a month in 2001 to the indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia that were instrumental in toppling five governments …
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