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Carleton Experts Available: United States’ Blockade of Cuba

February 17, 2026

Time to read: 2 minutes

Cuba is reaching a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. choking off the country’s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines have suspended service to the island and are bringing tourists back home.  Carleton experts are available to discuss this situation and its impacts. If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to reach out to them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Steven Reid, Media Relations Officer, at steven.reid3@carleton.ca.

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David Carment
Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

Email: David.Carment@carleton.ca

Carment is a series editor for Palgrave’s Canada and International Affairs, editor of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal and fellow of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His research focuses on Canadian foreign policy, mediation and negotiation, fragile states and diaspora politics.

He is the author, editor or co-editor of 21 books and has authored or co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His most recent books focus on diaspora cooperation, corruption in Canada, branding Canadian foreign policy and state fragility.

For more on Carment, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/david-carment

Philip Kaisary
Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies and Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University

Email: philip.kaisary@carleton.ca

Kaisary is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics and culture.

For more on Kaisary, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/philip-kaisary

Archibald Ritter
Professor, Department of Economics at Carleton University

Email: arch.ritter@carleton.ca

Ritter writes a blog on the Cuban economy, and his research focuses on development economics, the international dimensions of economic development, and development issues in Latin America with particular reference to Cuba.

For more on Ritter, visit: https://carleton.ca/economics/people/ritter-archibald-rm/

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Steven Reid (he/him)
Media Relations Office
Carleton University
613-265-6613
Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca

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