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By Carla Anne Robbins

A preliminary draft was presented to the San Francisco World Affairs Council on November 30, 1978.

Summary

The goal of this paper is not to establish either the dependency or the autonomy of Cuba's policies in Africa, but to analyze how Cuba's "dependent" commitments to the Soviet Union interact with Cuba's "autonomous" commitments to the Third World to reinforce and constrain Cuba's current policy choices in Africa.

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