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Book The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

Download or read book The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay written by Michael J. Strauss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-2002 events at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay have generated a spate of books on its use as a detention center in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Yet the crucial enabling factor-the lease that gave the U.S. control over the territory in Cuba-has till now escaped any but cursory consideration. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a leased territory where the U.S. has no sovereignty and Cuba has no jurisdiction. This is the first definitive account of the details and workings of the unusual and problematic state-to-state leasing arrangement that is the essential but murky foundation for all the ongoing controversies about Guantanamo Bay's role in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, charges of U.S. human rights violations, and U.S.-Cuban relations. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay provides an overview of territorial leasing between states and shows how it challenges, compromises, and complicates established notions of sovereignty and jurisdiction. Strauss unfolds the history of the Guantanamo Bay, recounting how the U.S. has deviated widely from the original terms of the lease yet never been legally challenged by Cuba, owing to the strong state-weak state dynamics. The lease is a hodge-podge of three U.S.-Cuba agreements full of discrepancies and uncorrected errors. Cuba's failure to cash the annual rent checks of the U.S. has legal implications not only for the future of Guantanamo Bay but of the Westphalian system of states. Compiled for the first time in one place are the verbatim texts of all the key documents relevant to the Guantanamo Bay lease-including treaties and other agreements, a previously unpublished U.N. legal assessment, and once-classified government correspondence.

Book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents

Download or read book Elihu Root Collection of United States Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inter American Relations

Download or read book Inter American Relations written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaties  Conventions  International Acts  Protocols and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers  1776 1909  Conventions in force

Download or read book Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers 1776 1909 Conventions in force written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Statutes Annotated

Download or read book Federal Statutes Annotated written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guant  namo  USA

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Irving Max Schwab
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 1999-11-16
  • ISBN : 0700616705
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Guant namo USA written by Stephen Irving Max Schwab and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1999-11-16 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island, the gulag of our times. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuited detainees of today's headlines to provide the first comprehensive history of Guantanamo from its origins to the present. Occupying 45 square miles of land and sea, Guantanamo has for more than a century symbolized the imperial impulse within U.S. foreign policy, and its occupation is decried by Cuba as a violation of international law--even though a treaty legally grants the U.S. a lease in perpetuity. Stephen Schwab now describes the base's role in American, Caribbean, and global history, explaining how it came to be, why it's still there, and how it continues to serve a variety of purposes. Schwab views the base's creation as part of a broad U.S. strategy of annexations, protectorates, and limited interventions devised to create a strong sphere of influence in the western Atlantic. He charts its history from this early belief that it would prevent European powers from staking imperial claims in the Caribbean and examines the crucial defensive role that Guantanamo played as a convoy hub for strategic goods during World War II. He then looks at clashes over Guantanamo during the Cold War, culminating in LBJ's decision to make the base independent by firing Cuban workers and building a desalinization plant. Schwab also fleshes out Guantanamo's ongoing roles as the U.S. Navy's lone forward base in the Caribbean, providing refueling for U.S. and allied ships, as a Coast Guard station engaged in search-and-rescue missions and counternarcotics operations, and as a U.S. facility for processing undocumented aliens. Even though the Castro government persistently protests America's presence—and refuses even to bank the rent that the U.S. dutifully pays—Guantanamo remains the only place where diplomatic exchanges between the two countries occur, and Schwab documents how the facility has served mutual interests as both a point of nationalistic frictions and a center for diplomatic compromise. By presenting Guantanamo's story within its broader historical framework, his book gives readers a greater appreciation of America's true stake in this controversial Caribbean outpost.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1438 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Adjustment of Title to Isle of Pines

Download or read book Adjustment of Title to Isle of Pines written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 2138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Federal Statutes Annotated

Download or read book The Federal Statutes Annotated written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaties  Convensions  International Acts  Protocols  and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers

Download or read book Treaties Convensions International Acts Protocols and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Treaties  Conventions  International Acts  Protocols  and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers

Download or read book Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements Between the United States of America and Other Powers written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .