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The
following reports on the contemporary
dynamics of Cuban society were
commissioned for Cuba Info from
several of the nation’s
leading experts on Cuba, including
faculty affiliates of the CRI.
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• Marifeli Pérez-Stable:
Cuban Politics After 1990
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Marifeli Pérez-Stable
is vice president
for democratic governance
at the Inter-American
Dialogue in Washington,
DC and a professor
of sociology at
Fiorida International
University. She
is the author of
The Cuban Revolution:
Origins, Course,
and Legacy (OUP,2nd
edition, 1999) and
editor of Cuba
en el siglo XXI:
Ensayos sobre la
transición
(Editorial
Colibrí,
2006). Her column
on Latin American
topics appears every
other Thursday in
the Miami Herald. |
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• Alejandro M.
de la Fuente: Racism,
Culture, and Mobilization
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Associate Professor
of History at the
University of Pittsburgh,
Alejandro M. de
la Fuente focuses
on Latin American
and Caribbean history
and comparative
slavery and race
relations. An expert
on race relations
in Cuba, he is the
author of A
Nation for All:
Race, Inequality,
and Politics in
Twentieth-Century
Cuba (University
of North Carolina
Press 2001). |
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• Juan J. López:
Alternative Futures in
Cuba
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Juan J. López
is the Director
of Research at Florida
International University’s
Latin American and
Caribbean Center.
Among his scholarly
publications is
Democracy Delayed:
The Case of Castro’s
Cuba (The Johns
Hopkins University
Press 2002). |
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• Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado:
The Current Status and
Future Prospects for Oil
Exploration in
Cuba
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Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
is an Associate
Professor of Political
Science and Assistant
Director for Research
and Outreach of
the Office of Latino/Latin
American Studies
at the University
of Nebraska at Omaha.
He has authored
numerous books,
articles and reports
on various dimensions
of energy development
policy in Cuba since
1990 and has visited
the island over
20 times in that
period. |
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In
addition, the following links
provide access to research on
Cuba conducted by the Cuban
Research Institute’s affiliated
faculty:
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• Damián
Fernández: “The
Politics of Youth in Cuba:
Patterns, Dynamics, and
Future
Challenges.”
Appendix B in Cuba After
Castro: Legacies, Challenges,
and Impediments
edited by Edward
González and Kevin
F. McCarthy. Prepared
for the National Defense
Research Institute,
May 2004.
(http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2005/RAND_TR131.pdf)
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Marifeli Pérez-Stable
is vice president
for democratic governance
at the Inter-American
Dialogue in Washington,
DC and a professor
of sociology at
Fiorida International
University. She
is the author of
The Cuban Revolution:
Origins, Course,
and Legacy (OUP,2nd
edition, 1999) and
editor of Cuba
en el siglo XXI:
Ensayos sobre la
transición
(Editorial
Colibrí,
2006). Her column
on Latin American
topics appears every
other Thursday in
the Miami Herald. |
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