Scholars Online
Philip Brenner
American University
Filmed in May 2008.
- Who are you and what do you? [0:22]
- What was the relationship between Cuba and the United States in the 19th century? [1:29]
- How did the 1895 war for independence change Cuba's relationship with the United States? [3:10]
- What was the Platt Amendment? [1:46]
- How did Cuba become an ally of the Soviet Union? [2:15]
- How did different national perspectives lead to three different names for the crisis? [1:53]
- How did the Cuban Missile Crisis change Cuba's relationship with the Soviet Union? [2:15]
- How did Cuba "export the revolution"? [2:06]
- Why was there tension in the Cuban-Soviet relationship? [2:54]
- How has Cuba's foreign policy connected it to the rest of the world? [1:17]
- What do you think were some of the accomplishments of the Cuban Revolution? [1:32]
- Why is Fidel Castro such a contested figure? [2:18]
- What was life like for Cubans during the special period? [3:56]
- What is daily life like for Cubans today? [2:20]
- What is hard currency? [1:40]
- How are U.S.–Cuban relations today? [2:35]
- Why should high school students learn about Cuba? [1:55]
Philip Brenner is a professor of international relations and the former director of the U.S. foreign policy field at the School of International Service at American University. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He specializes in the U.S. foreign policy process with an emphasis on Congress, and in U.S. policy toward Latin America. He has published widely on U.S.-Cuba relations, on U.S. policy towards Central America, and on the Cuban Missile Crisis. He most recently co-edited A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Brenner is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Security Archive, and has been a staff member in Congress and on the editorial boards of several journals. He was recently elected to the Executive Committee of the Latin American Studies Association, Cuba Section.
