US policy of economic sanctions against Cuba in 1990s years

A Qualitative Content Analysis of US Foreign Policy towards Cuba during Barack Obama’s Administration: Hegemony or Leadership?

The United States’ relations with Cuba are rooted in the US intervention in the process of Cuba’s independence from Spain in the 1890s. The US preserved its interest-based approach towards Cuba during the first half of the 20th century, which culminated in the Cuba’s counter-hegemonic revolution in 1959. This revolution led to more than fifty years of hostility between two countries, which took...

Similar but different: health and economic crisis in 1990s Cuba and Russia.

The collapse of the Soviet Bloc caused devastating economic crises in Cuba and in the Russian Federation but triggered remarkably different public health responses: while mortality rates in Russia increased substantially the crisis was barely visible in Cuban public health statistics. Fundamental social, political and cultural differences in the two countries and the respective specificities of...

Secondary economic sanctions

Many states, or rather their leaders and officials, routinely violate the fundamental human rights of both their compatriots or outsiders. Faced with this depressing catalogue of abuses, the international community’s response of choice consists in imposing economic sanctions on wrongdoers. The relatively scant philosophical literature on the topic tackles primary sanctions where the sanctioning...

Analysis of the economic and legal effects of sanctions against Iran's oil industry

Economic sanctions have been and continue to be applied extensively against Iran.  It is therefore, important for us to analyze the economic and legal aspects of sanctions. The paper is organized around two questions. First, we seek to understand the impact of sanctions on Iranian crude oil production and subsequently on social welfare? In the next step, we examine the effects of changes in oil...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy