Introduction: Worlds Apart

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: Worlds Apart 1
6. 1. Canada, Cuba, and Latin America: A Paradoxical Relationship 22
7. 2. Inside Castro’s Cuba: The Revolution and Canada’s Embassy in Havana 44
8. 3. ‘Calculated Diplomacy’: John Diefenbaker and the Origins of Canada’s Cuba Policy 75
9. 4. Between Nation and Empire: The Fair Play for Cuba Committees and the Making of Canada-Cuba Solidarity in the Early 1960s 96
10. 5. Cuba’s Long Shadow: The Progressive Church Movement and Canadian-Latin American Relations, 1970–87 121
11. 6. Viva el pueblo cubano: Pierre Trudeau’s Distant Cuba, 1968–78 143
12. 7. Canadian-Cuban Relations: Muddling through the ‘Special Period’ 163
13. 8. ‘Northern Ice’: Jean Chrétien and the Failure of Constructive Engagement in Cuba 195
14. 9. Ambassador MD: The Role of Health and Biotechnology in Cuban Foreign Policy 223
15. 10. Canadian-Cuban Economic Relations: Past, Present, Prospective 246
16. 11. Canada-Cuba Relations: A Multiple-Personality Foreign Policy 282
17. Index 303