ABSTRACT
Cuba's adaptation to a new regional environment and global correlation of forces combines traditional moralistic appeals with a recognition that domestic survival demands the rebuilding of external ties to a global economy driven by the market. Anti-Americanism is central to Cuban foreign policy; Cuba is one of the few developing states to maintain an unfriendly relationship with the United States. In the process of expanding ties in its region, Cuba joined twenty-six other Western Hemisphere nations in June 1994 to create the Association of Caribbean States, seeking to acquire much-needed imports and to sell its own products. The crisis in the Persian Gulf illustrates some of the main lines of Cuban foreign policy in the post-cold war period. As a member of the United Nations Security Council, Cuba condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait but opposed the use of force to resolve the conflict.
