About the Contributors
Luis Fernando Ayerbe is a professor in the Department of Economics and the Postgraduate Program in International Relations at the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP). He has also been a visiting researcher at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2001, he received a prize from the Casa de las Americas, Havana, in the category of social/historical essays. His publications include Estados Unidos e Amerca Latina: A Construcão de Hegomonia e Revoluucão Cubana.
Jamie Preciado Coronado is a research professor in the Center of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, and an affiliate of the Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies. He has also served as the president of the Latin American Sociological Association (ALAS).
Esteban Morales Dominguez is a professor of political economy at the University of Havana and director emeritus of the Center for Hemispheric and United States Studies. He is the author of numerous books and articles on United States-Cuban relations and the issue of race in contemporary Cuba, including United States-Cuban Relations: A Critical History(Lexington Books, 2008, with Gary Prevost).
H. Michael Erisman is a professor of political science at Indiana State University. He is the author of Cuba’s International Relations: The Anatomy of a Nationalistic Foreign Policy(Westview, 1985), Pursuing Postdependency Politics: South-South Relations in the Caribbean(Lynne Rienner, 1992), Cuba’s Foreign Relations in a Post-Soviet World (University Press of Florida, 2000), and Cuban Medical Internationalism: Origins, Evolution, and Goals(Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, with John Kirk). He is also the editor of The Caribbean Challenge: U.S. Policy in a Volatile Region (Westview 1984), and coeditor of Colossus Challenged: The Struggle for Caribbean Influence (Westview, 1982, with John Martz), Cuban Foreign Policy Confronts a New International Order(Lynne Rienner, 1991, with John Kirk) andRedefining Cuban Foreign Policy: The Impact Of The “Special Period”(University Press of Florida, 2006, with John Kirk). Dr. Erisman is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of Latin American Society and Politics and of Cuban Studies.
Pablo Ucis a researcher at the University of Guadalajara.