Book Review, The Diplomacy of Revolution and Counterrevolution: Some of the Secrets Revealed

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The Diplomacy of Revolution and Counterrevolution: Some of the Secrets Revealed
by Nelson P. Valdés

Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana

LeoGrande William M. & Kornbluh Peter Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

The authors and publishers of Back Channel to Cuba have an extraordinary—in fact impressive—sense of timing. The book became available to the general public just a few weeks before the Cuban and American presidents announced, on the same day (December 17, 2014), that full diplomatic relations would be restored by the governments of the United States and Cuba. LeoGrande and Kornbluh describe their book as presenting “a comprehensive chronicle of the history of dialogue between the United States and Cuba since 1959” (3). They call this unknown history “secret back-channel diplomacy”and note that the process of negotiation has been arduous, difficult, and complex. Indeed, and long overdue.







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