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Can International Boycotts Transform Political Systems? The Cases of Cuba and South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kathleen C. Schwartzman
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The economic embargo against Cuba has been widely promoted as a way to hasten the end of the Castro regime. Historically, however, the connection between embargoes and regime change is mediated by a complex of political, social, and economic conditions. Labormarket bottlenecks and domestic elite opposition, decisive factors in the South African case, are absent from that of Cuba. This study uses the factors derived from an analysis of South Africa to compare the Cuban case and concludes that the embargo against Cuba cannot have its intended results.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 115 - 146
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Copyright © University of Miami 2001

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