Washington-Miami-Havana 1999-2009
Towards the End of a Ménage à Trois
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6187583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabelle Vagnoux (0009-0003-0156-6217, Aix-Marseille Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1991-9336 • E-ISSN: 1991-9336 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ejas.7623 |
| OpenAlex | W1997795271 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Although comparatively recent immigrants and a very small group of hardly more than 1.3 million, Cuban Americans have been very influential in Washington’s confrontational policy toward Cuba over the past thirty years. While the end of the Cold War should have undermined the rationale for the embargo, they maintained a hard line on Cuba and proved quite convincing in their arguments with both the Clinton and the George W. Bush Administrations. This piece focuses on the past decade and will explore Washington’s continuing hard line toward Cuba as well as the serious challenges this posture is facing today. Increasing pressure from competing powerful lobbies to end the embargo, a growing uneasiness in Congress with the policy’s failure, a severe split within the Republican party over the issue, and a declining radicalism among younger Cuban Americans and more recent Cuban immigrants, all tend to signal a change in Washington’s Cuban policy in the near future, and with it a redefinition of Cuban American influence
Administration (probate law · Art history · Cold war · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · George (robot · Immigration · Immigration policy · Miami · Political economy · Political radicalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |