INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CUBAN STUDIES
Journal of the International Institute for the Study of Cuba www.plutojournals.com/ijcs/
Volume 15 Number 1 Summer 2023
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 Crisis of October Remembered 5
Stephen Wilkinson
Conference papers
The Missile Crisis 60 Years On 7
Rafael Hernández
In Defense of Principles 13
Tomás Diez Acosta
Academic articles
The October Crisis Revisited: Some Archaeological and Anthropological Examples 24
Håkan Karlsson
Game Theory and a New Insight into How the Cuban Missile Crisis Was Resolved 39
Somayeh Shaban and Madjid Eshaghi Gordji
Print Media and the Question of Slavery in Cuba: Discursive Strategies in Barcelona’s La Flaca and Havana’s El Moro Muza and Don Junípero 50
Ana Garcia Chichester
Cuban Exceptionalism and Leader Succession: The End of Charismatic Authority in Cuba 71
Denise Baden, Naveena Prakasam and Stephen Wilkinson
Impacto socioeconómico de la migración en Cuba, 2022 89
José Ramón Sanabria Navarro, Yahilina Silveira Pérez and William Alejandro Niebles Nuñez
Reflexiones necesarias sobre seguridad alimentaria en Cuba 109
Betsy Anaya Cruz and Anicia García Álvarez
Book reviews
Oscar Zanetti Lecuona, Cuba: El largo siglo XX 126
Jorge I. Domínguez
Haruko Hosoda, Castro and Franco: The Backstage of Cold War Diplomacy. 132
Alberto Gil Gil
Anne-Emmanuele Birn and Raul Necichea López (eds). Peripheral Nerve Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America 134
Imti Choonara
Jesús Sanjurjo, In the Blood of Our Brothers: Abolitionism and the End of the Slave Trade in Spain’s Atlantic Empire, 1800–1870 136
Roger Van Zwanenberg
Submission guidelines 138