Harry Targ

• Purdue University West Lafayette

This paper reviews the history of US-Cuban relations. It identifies the modest but significant changes in that policy brought about by negotiations during the Barack Obama and Raul Castro Administrations. It then examines the policy reversals initiated by President Trump during his first year in office. The paper suggests that US policy toward Cuba...

This article describes the important ways in which Harold Guetzkow mentored his student, helping him to develop conceptual and methodological skills and to become a rigorous thinker. While the path was sometimes difficult and stressful, the intellectual skills transmitted from Harold Guetzkow were vital to the teaching and research skills of his st...

Given the dramatic changes that have occurred in the former Soviet Union and among its erstwhile allies in the Soviet Bloc during the period of glasnost and perestroika, it is argued that the U.S. media portrayal of Cuba has shifted to accommodate this post-cold war structure of international relations. Past portrayal of Cuba as a Soviet surrogate...

This paper analyzes the rhetoric and policy goals of the living wage movement. While the rhetoric focuses on workers in the context of their families, the wage levels demanded by activists and mandated by laws are almost never adequate to support families with children, especially single‐parent families. We contend the problem is a fundamental, con...

“Hostility” describes U.S. policy toward the Nicaraguan government virtually from the time the new revolutionary junta came to power in July 1979 until February 1990, when the Nicaraguan people voted the Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) out of power. They were elections largely shaped by the U.S. war against that regime. The U.S. spo...

Reports the results of a study of a plant closing in Indiana. Data were obtained from displaced workers, union officials, community social service agencies, and small business owners.

Using questionnaire and interview data, we discuss displaced worker responses to the closing of their plant.

Examines the social and psychological effects of job loss due to a plant closure for female and male workers in a single plant.

We examine a broad range of effects of a plant closing on a community and its displaced workers. We report the results from questionnaire data from displaced workers and from continuously employed workers. We also report information obtained from interviews with town leaders, small businesses, and professionals in the central business district.

By examining data from fifteen Latin American nations on several agricultural- and food-related variables for 1965 to 1977, this paper analyzes the efficacy of the Green Revolution for food consumption. A Radical Model is offered to explain why a high technology, export-oriented, agricultural policy may not adequately serve the food consumption nee...

This essay seeks to clarify the boundaries and characterize the content of world-order studies with a view to bringing some much-needed conceptual, analytical, and historical clarity and order to the subject. The authors trace the evolution of all the three major perspectives on world order, lay bare the basic premises and summarize the main conclu...

The initial evaluation of an elementary school international relations simulation indicates that the simulation had most impact on participant beliefs. (DE)

International relations instruction had much less impact than external events during the spring of 1968 in changing student opinions on the Vietnam war. Identical questionnaires were administered at the beginning and end of the semester to the classes of two international relations professors at Purdue University, one somewhat sympathetic to and th...