1. Gary Prevost and Esteban Morales Dominguez, United States–Cuban Relations—A Critical History (Savage, MD: Lexington Books, 2008).

2. James G. Blight and Philip Brenner, Sad and Luminous Days: Cuba’s Struggle with the Superpowers after the Missile Crisis (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), and Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

3. H. Michael Erisman, Cuban Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1985); H. Michael Erisman, Cuba’s Foreign Relations in the Post-Soviet World (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000); H. Michael Erisman and John M. Kirk, eds., Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact of the Special Period (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006); and John M. Kirk and H. Michael Erisman, Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2010).

4. Partnership for Americas Commission (reviewed by Mark S. Langevin), Rethinking U.S.–Latin American Relations—A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, November 2008), and Washington Office on Latin America, Opting for Engagement (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, April 2008).

5. Barack Obama, “Renewing U.S. Leadership in the Americas” (speech, Miami, May 23, 2008). Organizing for America. BarackObama.com Web. 25 October 2010.

6. Brookings Institution, “Cuba and the United States: Rethinking a Troubled Relationship” in Rethinking U.S.–Latin American Relations (November 2008): 28–30,and Geoff Thale, “The United States and Post-Castro Cuba” in Opting for Engagement, Washington Office on Latin America (2008): 3–9.

7. Guy Hursthouse and Tomas Ayuso, Cambio? The Obama Administration in Latin America: A Disappointing Year in Perspective (Washington, DC: Council on Hemispheric Affairs, January 2010), and Laura Carlsen, CIP Analysts Look at Obama’s First Year (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, January 2010).

8. For more details on this issue, see John Lindsay-Poland, “Retreat to Colombia: The Pentagon Adapts its Latin American Strategy,” NACLA Report on the Americas, January–February 2010, and Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Unsettling Revelations Regarding U.S. Lease of Colombian Military Bases,