Cuba’s place among the US foreign policy interests (XIX – middle of the XX centuries)

Ekaterina Kasatkina, Ph.D. student, Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

Abstract

This article deals with the role of Cuba in the U.S. foreign policy interests in the XIX – middle of the XX centurie. The aim of the article is to characterize the general line of the U.S. foreign policy and to analyze its priorities. Particular attention is paid to the place of the Latin American region in the system of American national priorities. There were analyzed the factors which influenced on the formation of the U.S. policy towards Cuba and determined the nature of its qualitative changes in the given period. As a result of the research the author comes to the conclusion that the U.S. policy towards Cuba and its place among Washington’s foreign policy priorities in XIX – middle of the XX centuries had been changing greatly throught its history. In the XIX century, when the U.S. had their state-building process, Cuba had been considered as a potential member of the United States of America. By the beginning of the XX century, Washington had refused the inclusion of Cuba as a member of the U.S. But the USA got almost complete control over domestic and foreign policy of the island. At the same time, Cuba was included in the general vector of the US Latin American policy. After the victory of the revolution in 1959 and the beginning of the Soviet-Cuban cooperation, the U.S. had regarded Cuba through the confrontation with the Soviet Union in the framework of the Cold War. Cuba had taken one of the top places among the U.S. national interests.

Keywords
U.S., Cuba, Latin America, Big Stick Policy, Dollar Diplomacy

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DOI http://doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2016.02.191-197