Czech Journal of International Relations (Jun 2011)
U.S. Official Discourse on the Revolutionary Cuba
Abstract
The article aims to analyze representational practices which relied upon a series of relations that helped to legitimate U.S. foreign policy towards revolutionary Cuba in the years 1959–1960. Thinking of the U.S.–Cuban relations in terms of representational practices, the study deals with the representations of Cuba and explores how they were connected with certain strategies of political legitimization in the U.S. discourse. This attitude highlights an aspect of power as a producer of meanings, subject identities, their relationships and a range of imaginable conduct. For that matter, the analysis endorses the representational practices used to depict „the other“ as a basis for conceptualization of the strategies.
