Piero Gleijeses
Piero Gleijeses (born 1944 in
US intervention in Latin America. He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives.[3]
Education and work
Gleijeses gained a PhD in international relations from the
Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and knows Afrikaans, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.[1]
His 2002 book, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976, was an exhaustive re-examination of the Cuban involvement in the
Jorge Dominguez as "the best study available of Cuban operations in Africa during the Cold War",[5] it won SHAFR's Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize for 2003.[6] Visions of Freedom (2013) picks up from Conflicting Missions by looking at the clash between Cuba, the United States, the Soviet Union, and South Africa in southern Africa between 1976 and 1991.[7]
Aside from scholarly journals, Gleijeses has contributed to such publications as Foreign Affairs[8] and the London Review of Books.[9]
Selected publications
Books
- Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. Chapel Hill, NC: ISBN 978-1-469-60968-3.
- The Cuban Drumbeat: Castro's Worldview. ISBN 978-1-906-49737-8.
- Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976. Chapel Hill, NC: ISBN 978-0-807-82647-8.
- Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944–1954. Princeton, NJ: ISBN 978-0-691-07817-5.
- Politics and Culture in Guatemala. Ann Arbor, MI: UM Center for Political Studies. 1988.
- Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America. Washington, DC: ISBN 978-0-941-70002-3.
- The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention. Baltimore, MD: ISBN 978-0-801-82025-0.
Articles and chapters
- "Cuba and the Cold War, 1959–1980". In Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, eds., The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Volume II: Crises and Détente (pp. 327–348). Cambridge: ISBN 978-0-521-83720-0.
- "Afterword: The Culture of Fear". In ISBN 978-0-804-75467-5.
- Gleijeses, Piero (2006). "Moscow's Proxy? Cuba and Africa, 1975–1988" (PDF). S2CID 57568629.
- Gleijeses, Piero (1997). "The First Ambassadors: Cuba's Contribution to Guinea-Bissau's War of Independence". S2CID 144904249.
- Gleijeses, Piero (1996). "Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria, 1961–1965". S2CID 144610436.
- Gleijeses, Piero (1994). "'Flee! The White Giants are Coming!': The United States, the Mercenaries, and the Congo, 1964–1965" (PDF). doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.1994.tb00611.x. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-01-17.
- Gleijeses, Piero (1983). "The Case for Power Sharing in El Salvador". JSTOR 20041635.
Awards and distinctions
- 2005 – Guggenheim Fellowship[2]
- 2003 – Cuban Medal of Friendship[10]
- 2003 – Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize[6]
Personal life
Gleijeses is married to artist Setsuko Ono, the sister of Yoko Ono.[10]
References
- ^ a b "SAIS Faculty » Piero Gleijeses". sais-jhu.edu. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Piero Gleijeses: 2005 Fellow, U.S. History". gf.org. Archived from the original on 4 May 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Piero Gleijeses (October 2013). "Introduction to CWIHP e-Dossier No. 44". wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- JSTOR 20033044.
- S2CID 153190696.
- ^ a b "Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize » Recent Winners". shafr.org. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ Ned Sublette (19 December 2012). "Piero Gleijeses: The Hip Deep Essential Interview". afropop.org. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ "Authors » Piero Gleijeses". foreignaffairs.com. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ "Contributors » Piero Gleijeses". lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
- ^ a b Gioia Minuti (19 August 2004). "Piero Gleijeses: a truly special Italian". Granma. Retrieved 15 April 2013.