Word: cuban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jorge I. Dominguez, associate professor of Government, took his phone off the hook yesterday afternoon and left it there. But that didn't give him the peace he needed to finish proofreading an article for the Miami Herald on the recent thaw in Cuban-American relations; students flowed steadily into his Coolidge Hall office to discuss Dominguez's new springterm course on U.S.-Latin American relations...
...weeks ago Dominguez returned to Cuba, the country where he spent the first 16 years of his life and the focus of much of his research, for the first time since 1960. He lectured at the Cuban Academy of Science, giving what he called "a standard Gov 40 lecture on alternative approaches to the study of U.S. foreign policy...
...Cuban scholars are very competent in their chosen fields of history and some types of practical economics, but "there are huge chunks of social science they simply don't do," Dominguez said...
...result of his visit to Cuba, Dominguez was able to arrange some joint projects with Cuban scholars, including the preparation of a book of "social science as it is practiced in Cuba, by Cubans, about Cuba...
...geopolitical. During all of the postwar period, the countries bordering the Indian Ocean believed that the United States was strategically predominant in that area and that, therefore, that friendship with the United States assured their security, both internationally and, to some extent, domestically. The Soviet march through Africa, with Cuban troops, from Angola to Ethiopia, and the Soviet moves through Afghanistan and South Yemen, or at least the moves of Soviet clients, altered that perception. That inevitably decreased the importance of friendship with the United States and emboldened our opponents We simply did not understand that what happened...