The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state

Rafael Mesquita ()
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Rafael Mesquita: Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE)

The Review of International Organizations, 2024, vol. 19, issue 3, No 8, 639 pages

Abstract: Abstract This article explores how weak countries deflect systemic pressure towards change and even succeed in preserving old institutions to their advantage. By expanding Goddard’s theory of embedded revisionism to smaller powers, the study identifies strategies these states deploy to improve access and brokerage. We use the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset to locate multilateral brokers and, after detecting Cuba’s centrality in this arena, we proceed to a heuristic case study. Havana’s maneuvers to offset its vulnerability during and after the Cold War reveal a mix of structural, institutional, and compulsory power. Specifically, its renewal of the Non-Aligned Movement even after the end of bipolarity, its maintenance of autocracy amidst the pressures for democratization, and later support of radicalized Latin American leaders provide insight regarding unexpected sources of network power available to a resilient rogue state.

Keywords: UN General Assembly; Network analysis; Power; Brokerage; Cuba; Small states; Non-aligned Movement; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F5 N46 P3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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