{"id":100359,"date":"2026-02-17T09:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/?p=100359"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:38:21","slug":"carleton-experts-available-united-states-blockade-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2026\/carleton-experts-available-united-states-blockade-of-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: United States\u2019 Blockade of Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Experts Available: United States\u2019 Blockade of Cuba\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuba is reaching a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. choking off the country\u2019s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines have suspended service to the island and are bringing tourists back home.&nbsp; 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 <a href=\"mailto:steven.reid3@carleton.ca\">steven.reid3@carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/\">https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>David Carment<\/strong><br>Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:David.Carment@carleton.ca\">David.Carment@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carment is a series editor for Palgrave\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on Carment, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/david-carment\">https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/david-carment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Philip Kaisary<\/strong><br>Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies and Department of English Language and Literature at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:philip.kaisary@carleton.ca\">philip.kaisary@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on Kaisary, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/philip-kaisary\">https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/philip-kaisary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Archibald Ritter<\/strong><br>Professor, Department of Economics at Carleton University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:arch.ritter@carleton.ca\">arch.ritter@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ritter writes a blog on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecubaneconomy.com\/\">Cuban economy<\/a>, and his research focuses on development economics, the international dimensions of economic development, and development issues in Latin America with particular reference to Cuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more on Ritter, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/ritter-archibald-rm\/\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/people\/ritter-archibald-rm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br>Steven Reid (he\/him)<br>Media Relations Office<br>Carleton University<br>613-265-6613<br><a href=\"mailto:Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca\">Steven.Reid3@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for a Carleton expert?<br>Visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/experts.carleton.ca\/<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba is reaching a breaking point amid a fuel shortage brought about by the U.S. choking off the country\u2019s oil supply. Meanwhile, Canadian airlines have suspended service to the island and are bringing tourists back home.&nbsp; Carleton experts are available to discuss this situation and its impacts. 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