U.S. Foreign Policy and Cuba

Piero Gleijeses

Wednesday, 25 Feb 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Study at John Hopkins University. He is the author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 ; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States; Politics and Culture in Guatemala; Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America; The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention. He has a doctorate in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

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