U.S. Policy Toward a Cuba in Transition: Roadmap for Critical and Constructive Engagement

The following is an extract from a forthcoming report by the Brookings "U.S. Policy Toward a Cuba in Transition" project . The roadmap was released on February 26 at a Brookings event in Miami, FL.   

INTRODUCTION

Under the auspices of the Brookings Institution’s project “U.S. Policy toward a Cuba in Transition,” nineteen distinguished academics, opinion leaders, and diplomats committed themselves to seeking ways to improve our policy so that it would better serve the interests of our country, the Cuban people, and the Hemisphere. Together, over the past eighteen months, we have carried out simulations and discussions on the complex realities of the United States and Cuba. Although we all come from different backgrounds and political orientations, we arrived at the same conclusion.