Briefing Paper Series

The Briefing Paper Series is no longer in publication but will remain available online via the links below. If you would like to contact an author for additional information or need hard copies of a briefing paper, please email Dr. Maguire at maguirer@trinitydc.edu

Caribbean Briefing Paper Series

1. Divergent International Perspectives on the Caribbean: The Interaction Between the Ongoing Caribbean, U.S., and European Adaptations to the New Global Economy
2. Creating Employment Opportunities in the Windward Countries of the Eastern Caribbean
3. Narco-Criminality in the Caribbean: Global Problems in Small Places
4. Can the Windward Islands Survive Globalization?
5. Narrowing the Digital Divide: Lessons from a Computer Training Initiative for Microentrepreneurs
6. Survival at What Cost? The Impact of Financial Services on Small Caribbean States

Cuba Briefing Paper Series

1. The Sociological Impact of Rising Foreign Investment
2. The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc: Effects on Cuban Health Care
3. Latin American Perspectives on the Cuban Transition
4. Cuba's Armed Forces: From Triumph to Survival
5. Balancing Economic Efficiency, Social Concerns, and Political Control
6. Dollars, Darkness, and Diplomacy: Three Perspectives on Cuba
7. Cuba's NGOs: Government Puppets or Seeds of Civil Society?
8. Environmental Implications of Cuba's Economic Crisis
9. Western European and Canadian Relations with Cuba after the Cold War
10. Conflict, Coexistence, and Cooperation: Church-State Relations in Cuba
11. Cuba's Employment Conundrum: Cautious Reform, 1991 to 1994
12. Challenges Facing the Cuban Military
13. Cuba, the Internet, and U.S. Policy
14. Cuba's Employment Conundrum: Pushing the Limits of Debate, January to July 1995
15. Trading With the 'Enemy': Canadian-Cuban Relations in the 1990s
16. Cuba and Cuban-Americans: An Irreconcilable Relationship?
17. Cuba's Small Business Experience: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
18. Recreating Racism: Race and Discrimination in Cuba's 'Special Period'
19. Cuba's Nuclear Program: A Hollow Threat?
20. Cuba's Jineteros: Youth, Culture and Revolutionary Ideology
21. The Role of Sports in Cuba's Domestic and International Policy
22. Cuba's Reengagement With the Caribbean: Setbacks and Successes
23. Cuba and Puerto Rico: From Cold Warriors to Business Associates
24. Cuba, Counternarcotics and Collaboration: A Security Issue in U.S.-Cuban Relations
25. The Cubans Are (Still) Coming: U.S. Immigration and Foreign Policy on Cuba
26. Interreligious Dialogue in Cuba
27. Protecting U.S. National Interests in the Event of a Major Oil Spill in the Straits of Florida
28. Passionate Politics: The Nature of Cuban - Venezuelan Relations

Cuba Occasional Papers Series

1. The Catholic Church and the Cuban Diaspora
2. Religion and Religiosity in Cuba: Past, Present and Future