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Title: | The soviet-cuban alliance in Africa and the Caribbean |
Author: | Valenta, Jiri |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | The World Today: Chatham House Review |
Volume: | 37 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 45-53 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Soviet Union Cuba |
Subject: | foreign policy |
Abstract: | While the USSR plays the dominant role in the alliance with Cuba and exercises great influence upon Cuban foreign policy in general and Cuban policy in the Third World in particular (with Cuba enjoying only a small degree of relative autonomy), Cuba likewise provides inputs, albeit limited, into Soviet decision-making regarding the Third World. Because Cuban willingness to deploy regular troops in Africa became indispensable to the Soviet Union's African policies, Cuba gained the status of a privileged ally and was able to insist on adjustments in Soviet-Cuban economic and political relations. Castro's Cuban policy cannot be viewed as totally subservient to that of the USSR. This is further elaborated in the sections: Cuba's dependence on the USSR - Soviet-Cuban interventions in Angola and Ethiopia - Impact of Afghanistan - Revolutionary opportunities in the Caribbean basin - Internal and external constraints. Notes. |