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Transformation and continuity in Cuba

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  • Bert Hoffmann

    (Lateinamerika-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Rudesheimer Straβle 54-56, 14197 Berlin, Germany berthoff@zedat.fu-berlin.de)

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This article considers the propositions of transition and transformation research with respect to the "deviant case" of still socialist Cuba. A central element of the explanation for Cuba's "nontransition" is the specific relationship of political continuity and economic transformation - even as the latter is carried out paradoxically largely behind the back of the state and against its officially expressed will. A second decisive factor is the simultaneity of the "political" and the "national" questions, in which Cuba's political system can present itself as the defender of national sovereignty. The aggressive policy of "exporting democracy" from the United States in the style of the Helms-Burton Law has thus exactly the opposite result: stabilization despite internal crisis and loss of legitimation.

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  • Bert Hoffmann, 2001. "Transformation and continuity in Cuba," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 33(1), pages 1-20, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:33:y:2001:i:1:p:1-20
    DOI: 10.1177/048661340103300101
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    1. Hoffmann, Bert, 2011. "The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Legitimation: The Impact of Regime Evolution," GIGA Working Papers 182, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
    2. Hoffmann, Bert, 2005. "Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism," GIGA Working Papers 2, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.

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