The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

This is the first definitive account of just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a territory where the United States has no sovereignty and Cuba has no jurisdiction. Michael J. Strauss, lecturer in international relations at the Centre d'Etudes Diplomatiques et Strategiques, has mined previously unpublished and classified government correspondence to elucidate the details and workings of the unusual and problematic state-to-state leasing arrangement that is the essential, but murky, foundation for all the ongoing controversies about Guantanamo Bay's role in U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, charges of U.S. human rights violations, and U.S.-Cuban relations. Book jacket.