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July 16, 2009
Council on Foreign Relations
In her new book, CUBA: What Everyone Needs to Know, CFR Senior Fellow and Director for Latin America Studies Julia E. Sweig provides a straightforward guide to Cuba's politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting role in the global community. Award-winning author Sweig has toured the island's prisons, lived with Cuban families following the collapse of the Soviet Union, conducted research in government archives, and interviewed hundreds of Cubans over the last two decades.
CUBA, deemed "an excellent and refreshingly evenhanded primer" by the Los Angeles Times, is divided into four sections:
Using a question and answer format, Sweig authoritatively answers:
The book is a part of Oxford's new What Everyone Needs to Know series and is designed to be a comprehensive, accessible resource on the unique history of Cuba since Spanish colonization.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CUBA:
"Excellent and refreshingly evenhanded.... [It] packs a phenomenal amount of complex history into clear and simple prose."
-Los Angeles Times
To order, visit: www.cfr.org/cuba_book/
Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution (winner of the AHA Herbert Feis award for the best book of the year by an independent scholar) and Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.
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