Cuba in the global context -- U.S. policy toward Latin America since 1959: How exceptional is Cuba? / Lars Schoultz -- An island on the doorstep of the world: Cuba's place in U.S. global visions / Ronald W. Pruessen -- Flicking the eagle's feathers?: Cuba, revolution, and the international system / Candace Sobers -- Havana and Moscow: the Washington factor / Mervyn J. Bain -- Does the Canada-Cuba relationship offer any lessons for Washington? / Peter McKenna and John M. Kirk -- The European Union and Cuba / Joaquín Roy -- Cuba and the United States, 1959-2009 / The personal is political: animus and malice in the U.S. policy toward Cuba, 1959-2009 / Louis A. Perez Jr -- The Eisenhower-Castro years: the United States, Cuba, and the challenges of change / Francisca López Civeira -- The Kennedy-Castro years / David A. Welch -- Superpower containment of Cuba: the Johnson-Nixon-Castro years / William O. Walker III -- The Nixon-Ford-Castro years / Rosa López-Oceguera -- The Carter-Castro years: a unique opportunity / Robert A. Pastor -- The Reagan-Castro years: the "new right" and its anti-Cuban obsession / Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto -- The George H. W. Bush-Clinton-Castro years: from the cold war to the colder war (1989-2001) / Jorge I. Domínguez -- The George W. Bush-Castro years / Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Philip Brenner -- The new Cuban American politics: passion, affection, dollars, and the emergence of Mihavana / Damián Fernández -- Visions of the future -- Transitology, realpolitik and todo lo contrario: old and new futures in U.S.-Cuban relations / Rafael M. Hernández -- U.S.-Cuban relations: prospects for cooperative coexistence / William M. Leogrande and Marguerite Rose Jimenez -- The time for Cuba is coming / Víctor López Villafañe.