ABSTRACT
Of all the small states, few have generated as much international interest as Cuba. Over the past decade or so Cuba has been seen to successfully challenge the American dominance of its economy; it has been at the centre of a crisis which brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war; it has propagated an ideology which has inspired insurrectionary groups throughout Latin America; and its leader, Fidel Castro Ruz, has emerged as an international figure.
