Italian historian (born 1944)
Piero Gleijeses (Venice ,Italy , August 4, 1944) is a professor ofUnited States foreign policy at thePaul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) atJohns Hopkins University .[ 1] Cuban foreign policy underFidel Castro , which earned him aGuggenheim Fellowship in 2005,[ 2] US intervention in Latin America . He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives.[ 3]
Gleijeses gained a PhD in international relations from theGraduate Institute of International Studies inGeneva , and knowsAfrikaans ,French ,German ,Italian ,Portuguese ,Russian , andSpanish .[ 1]
His 2002 book,Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 , was an exhaustive re-examination of the Cuban involvement in thedecolonization of Africa .[ 4] Jorge Dominguez as "the best study available of Cuban operations in Africa during the Cold War",[ 5] SHAFR 's Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize for 2003.[ 6] Visions of Freedom (2013) picks up fromConflicting Missions by looking at the clash between Cuba, the United States, the Soviet Union, and South Africa in southern Africa between 1976 and 1991.[ 7]
Aside from scholarly journals, Gleijeses has contributed to such publications asForeign Affairs [ 8] London Review of Books [ 9]
Selected publications [ edit ] Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991 . Chapel Hill, NC:University of North Carolina Press . 2013.ISBN 978-1-469-60968-3 The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview .Seagull Books . 2009.ISBN 978-1-906-49737-8 Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 . Chapel Hill, NC:University of North Carolina Press . 2002.ISBN 978-0-807-82647-8 Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954 . Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press . 1992.ISBN 978-0-691-07817-5 Politics and Culture in Guatemala . Ann Arbor, MI:UM Center for Political Studies . 1988.Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America . Washington, DC:SAIS Foreign Policy Institute . 1982.ISBN 978-0-941-70002-3 The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention . Baltimore, MD:Johns Hopkins University Press . 1978.ISBN 978-0-801-82025-0 Articles and chapters [ edit ] "Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980". The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume II: Crises and Détente (pp. 327–348)Cambridge University Press . 2010.ISBN 978-0-521-83720-0 "Afterword: The Culture of Fear".Nick Cullather , Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala 1952–1954 (pp. xxiii–xxxviii). 2nd edStanford University Press . 2006.ISBN 978-0-804-75467-5 Gleijeses, Piero (2006)."Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa, 1975–1988" (PDF) .Journal of Cold War Studies 8 (2):3– 51.doi :10.1162/jcws.2006.8.2.3 .S2CID 57568629 . Gleijeses, Piero (1997). "The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence".Journal of Latin American Studies 29 (1):45– 88.doi :10.1017/s0022216x96004646 .JSTOR 158071 .S2CID 144904249 . Gleijeses, Piero (1996). "Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961–1965".Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (1):159– 195.doi :10.1017/s0022216x00012670 .JSTOR 157991 .S2CID 144610436 . Gleijeses, Piero (1994)." (PDF) .Diplomatic History 18 (2):207– 237.doi :10.1111/j.1467-7709.1994.tb00611.x . Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 2013-01-17. Gleijeses, Piero (1983)."The Case for Power Sharing in El Salvador" .Foreign Affairs 61 (5):1048– 1063.doi :10.2307/20041635 .JSTOR 20041635 . Awards and distinctions [ edit ] Gleijeses is married to artist Setsuko Ono, the sister ofYoko Ono .[ 10]
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