Cuba and the United States moving towards normalization — Realities of the new relationship
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Schedule Info
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Session 3 |
Sat 03:15pm – 05:00pm |
Panel Proposal/Workshop Information
2015
Abstract:
The panel will explore the ramifications of the recent development to normalize relations between Cuba and the United States. After 50 plus years of antagonism, the announcement to move towards normalization came as a welcome and surprising new change. Examining the complexities, the panel will discuss the effect this new relationship will have on Cuba’s movement towards a 21st Century socialism, the updated regulations for Americans who want to travel to Cuba, as well as the opportunities for American businesses to enter into the once-forbidden market. Will the possibility of McDonald’s in Old Havana change Cuba for the better or worse? A major topic of discussion will be the rationale behind President Obama’s decision to charter a new path towards Cuba, and does it simply mean American is pursuing a new strategy of ‘regime change.’ Panelists include University of Toronto lecturer and author Keith Bolender, historian and Cuban expert Jane Franklin, Bob Guild of Marazul Travel the leader in US travel to Cuba, and Ariel Hernandez, First Secretary to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Cuba to the United Nations.
Panel/Workshop Topics:
Caribbean Basin
Latin America
U.S. Politics
More Panel/Workshop Information
Reading List:
Keith Bolender, Cuba Under Siege: American Policy, the Revolution and its People (Palgrave 2012); Jane Franklin, Cuba and the United States: A Chronological History, (Ocean Press 1997) and Cuba-Estados Unidos: Cronología de una historia (Editorial de Sciences Sociales 2015); Peter Roman, Peoples Power (Rowman Littlefield 2003); Louis Perez, Cuba in the American Imagination (University of North Carolina Press 2011).
Participants
Chair/Facilitator:
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Name: Keith Bolender |
Speakers/Co-Facilitators:
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Name: Jane Franklin |
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Name: Bob Guild |
