دانلود کتاب State Resistance to Globalisation in Cuba

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Contents......Page 4
1. Introduction......Page 8
Cuba as an Exception......Page 9
Neo- liberal Globalisation, Socialism and Anti- Imperialist State Resistance......Page 12
Implications for the State......Page 20
Social Consequences of the Global Trends......Page 21
Socialism in a Sea of Capitalism......Page 23
Marxist Socialism......Page 24
State Capitalism......Page 28
Implications for Studying Cuba......Page 31
The Party/ State Apparatus......Page 41
2. Conceptualising Cuban Socialism: The Pillars of the Revolution......Page 48
The Causes of a Tardy Independence......Page 49
Roots of Nation- state Formation......Page 50
US Intervention and Neo- colonialism......Page 55
The First Labour Movement......Page 57
A Workers' Revolutionary Attempt......Page 59
An Alternative to the Workers' Movement......Page 67
'Cuba Socialista'......Page 76
Economic Integration into the Soviet Bloc......Page 86
Unity, Continuity, State Supremacy and Popular Participation......Page 88
3. The Causes and Impact of Cuba's Crisis in the 1990s......Page 93
The Background to the Crisis......Page 96
The Effects of Integration......Page 97
The Campaign to Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies......Page 99
The Demise of the CMEA......Page 101
Cuba and the Fall of the Soviet Union......Page 104
The US Economic Embargo......Page 116
The State's Response and the Impact upon Cuba's Political System......Page 124
Foreign Direct Investment......Page 140
Signs of Slow Recovery......Page 146
4. Structural Adjustments and Social Forces in Cuba: How Cuba™s Economic Model was Shaped by Global Trends......Page 159
Demonstrated Economic Growth......Page 160
Causes for Economic Growth......Page 162
Social Growth......Page 165
World Bank Development Reports and Other International Sources......Page 169
Cuba's Most Radical Change - Sistema de Perfeccionamiento Empresarial......Page 171
Cuentapropismo: The New Self- employment in Cuba......Page 191
New Structures......Page 202
New Structures and Social Bloc Formations......Page 213
Structural Changes and the Revolution's Identity......Page 223
5. Conclusions and Considerations......Page 230
Shaky Pillars?......Page 233
Possible Future Scenarios......Page 238
A Disintegration of the Party/ State Apparatus?......Page 240
Maintaining Cuban Socialism......Page 242
Bibliography......Page 247
Index......Page 264