ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a game theoretical framework for the analysis of current political and ethical issues involved in a reconsideration of American foreign policy toward Cuba. It argues that while few celebrate the character or structure of the Castro regime, a debate is emerging as to the policy toward the regime in light of Castro's continuing staying power. Ethical issues turn on what policies are best calculated to cause the people of Cuba the least grief or despair without giving sustenance to the dictatorship. In this multi-layered situation, policy making becomes freighted with extrinsic considerations that make this a special moment in the nearly thirty-five-year history of Castro's Cuba. An embargo represents a termination, in whole or in part, of goods and services by one nation to a second nation deemed hostile and demonstrably unfriendly. The installation of a new administration in Washington does indeed propel the idea of different set of relations between Castro's Cuba and the United States.
