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Seaman (social sciences, U. of Osnabruck, Germany) conducts an analysis of US policy towards Cuba during the Bush years (although the relative continuity in policy under Obama means that Seaman's findings on the ineptness of the policy remain relevant). He begins with an overview of what he calls "the development of U.S. democracy promotion in Cuba throughout the 20th century," before turning towards analysis of Bush's efforts to promote regime change through a two-pronged approach of weakening the Cuban government through economic sanctions, the top-down approach, and the external promotion of civil society groups, the bottom-up approach. For each case he explores the theoretical underpinnings of the policy--i.e., the relationship between economic instability and democratization in terms of the top-down approach and the relationship between civil society and democratization (and the possible impacts of external interference) in terms of the bottom-up approach, eventually concluding that current US policy is folly. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
