28/12/2014 | Frente Externo
A Caribbean victory for diplomacy
The announcement last week by President Barack Obama that the United States and Cuba would reestablish diplomatic relations is a startling but welcome breath of fresh air in the stalest of international stalemates. Right after the media reported the mutual release of prisoners, including US Agency for International Development subcontractor Alan Gross and the three remaining members of the "Cuban Five", Obama announced that mutual embassies would soon be established.
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18/12/2014 | Frente Externo
The United States and Cuba: Toward Normalization, Finally
A victory for diplomacy in time for the holidays.
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20/09/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iraq and the Politics of Withdrawal: Lessons from U.S. Occupations in Latin America
As U.S. politicians of every political stripe seek to find ways to extricate their nation from Iraq, historian Alan McPherson provides some keen insights from another era — and theater — of U.S. history. He explores previous U.S. “entanglements” and shows how hard it is to leave behind the morass of presumed tin cup dictatorships.
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