Yaffe, Helen

Dr Helen Yaffe  

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Experience keywords:

Cuba-United States relations; Cuban economic history; Cuban history; Cuban political economy; Latin America; Latin American and Caribbean regional integration; Venezuela; history of economics; socialist political economy

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I am currently leading (with Dr Nick Kitchen) on a project set up between two LSE research centres - the Latin America and Caribbean Centre and the United States Centre – to examine the resilience of Cuba’s economic and political structures to the domestic reform process and rapprochement with the United States. The project has been awarded seed funding from the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA)-Rockefeller fund at LSE to enable me to carry out research in Cuba from December 2016 to January 2017. In 2013 I spent time in Venezuela, advising a government ministry (Ministerio de Poder Popular para las Comunas y los Movimientos Sociales) on a new economic management system they were developing and gave a series of lectures and presentations about my work on Cuban & Latin American political economy.

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Caribbean; Cuba; Latin America

Languages:

Spanish [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 9755 6701

LSE email:

h.yaffe@lse.ac.uk

Alt email:

helen_yaffe@yahoo.co.uk

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I lecture on the history of economics, teach on the political economy of late development and have expertise on Cuban economic history and contemporary Cuban reforms and rapprochement with the United States. My research interests include: • Cuban economic history • Contemporary developments in Cuba and Cuba/US relations. • Latin American history and politics • Latin American and Caribbean integration: trade/cooperation treaties • Venezuela and Ecuador • The history of economics • The anti-apartheid movement in Britain I have been interviewed frequently about domestic developments in Cuba and the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with the United States. I have also been interviewed about developments throughout Latin America.

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