INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CUBAN STUDIES
Journal of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba
Volume 14 Number 2 Winter 2022
Sponsored by the University of Buckingham
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ISSN 1756-3461 (Print)
ISSN 1756-347X (Online)
© INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CUBA
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CUBAN STUDIES
Journal of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba
Editors & Editorial Board
Founding Editor: Professor Patrick Pietroni, International Institute for the Study of Cuba, United Kingdom
Editors:
Dr Stephen Wilkinson, University of Buckingham, United Kingdom
Dr Al Campbell, University of Utah, USA
Assistant Editor:
Marcel Kunzmann
Editorial Board:
Dr. Mark Ginsburg, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Dr. Rafael Hernández, Editor of Temas, Cuba
Dr John M. Kirk, Dalhousie University, Canada
Dr Eloise Linger, State University of New York, Old Westbury, USA
Professor Luís Montero, Facultad de Química, Universidad de Habana, Cuba
Dr Ricardo Torres, Universidad de Habana, Cuba
Dr Sonia Trigueros, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Dr Julia Wright, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Professor Raúl Fernández, University of California, Irvine
Aims and Scope
IJCS aims to provide a forum for objective investigation and informed debate, and a publication opportunity for scholarly work, on the nature of the Cuban experience: its historical context; its international image and relationships; its scientific, cultural and social achievements; its future orientation; and similar topics. It encourages submissions from the whole range of disciplines and from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The journal takes a broad view of the emerging and diverging positions held within Cuba and outside. Published worldwide, the journal encourages the exchange of experience and expertise between contributors and readers across continents and between countries.
CONTENTS
Editorial
The aggression and the hard times continue, and in this issue 197
Al Campbell
Editorial
The US blockade, and the “1 cent 4 Cuba” campaign to challenge it 207
Helen Yaffe
Academic articles
Local development in Cuba from a higher education perspective 214
Jorge Núñez Jover and Aurora Fernández González
Comportamiento del cumplimiento tributario de los trabajadores por cuenta propia en Cuba 228
Maira Vázquez Díaz, Yahilina Silveira-Pérez, José Ramón Sanabria-Navarro and Oscar Parada Gutiérrez
Dossier: The blockade today and its recent history
Global geopolitical confrontations in the post-Cold War era and the role of Cuba 252
Carlos Oliva Campos and Gary Prevost
Economic and media war against socialist societies: The case of US-Cuban relations 272
Mark Ginsburg
There and back again: United States policy toward Cuba in the 21st century 309
Ernesto Domínguez López and Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez
Cuban cobalt: A gateway to strategic minerals politics? 343
H. Michael Erisman
Book reviews
Emily J. Kirk, Isabel Story, and Anna Clayfield (eds.), Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba 359
Al Campbell
Frederick Luciani, ed. and tr., José María Heredia in New York, 1823–1825: An Exiled Cuban Poet in the Age of Revolution 362
Jorge I. Dominguez
Alejandro de la Fuente (ed.), Cuban Studies 50 365
Al Campbell
Submission guidelines 371