U.S. Grand Strategy in Cuba: Efforts to Promote Democracy

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2001
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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In the first section of this paper, I will discuss the promotion of democracy as part of U.S. grand strategy in the Post-Cold War era. I will present different and conflicting scholarly opinions regarding the role of democracy promotion and the sort of priority that it should hold for U.S. foreign policy. In the last eight years, the Clinton administration has adopted a strategy that most closely resembles the model of Cooperative Security, although turning in the direction of Primacy, a direction that the Bush administration is likely to follow. I will use the frame that I have developed about the priority of democracy promotion for U.S. grand strategy, to consider U.S.-Cuban relations. Prior to the fall of the Soviet bloc, U.S. policy on Cuba was directly related to containing the threat of communism. After the Cuban revolution of 1959, the rise of Fidel Castro and his ensuing decision to declare the revolution socialist to receive Soviet [aid] were extremely threatening to the United States because it gave the Soviets a very close geographical location to the U.S. and a charismatic leader who was interested in liberating other small nations from their imperialistic governments. Therefore, the Cuban revolution was not only an ideological loss, but it became a national security threat for the United States.
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