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Cuba’S Use Of Medical Diplomacy: Establishing Global Significance And Influence, Juan Herzberg
Cuba’S Use Of Medical Diplomacy: Establishing Global Significance And Influence, Juan Herzberg
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This research project aims to assess the importance of medical diplomacy as a foreign policy strategy for Cuba, as well as a means by which the small island nation has managed to gain geopolitical prominence in the current international political sphere. Through the analysis of Cuba’s medical internationalism, its impact on the health of populations across the world, its oil-for-doctors trade agreements with Venezuela, and its involvement in initiatives like the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), it becomes easier to see the link between medical diplomacy and geopolitical power, which Cuba has been successfully garnering since its 1959 Revolution …