Julia E. Sweig is the Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies and Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution (winner of the AHA Herbert Feis award for the best book of the year by an independent scholar) and Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC.

1. Before the 1959 Revolution: Cuban National Identity and the Great Powers
2. The Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1951-1991
3. The Cuban Revolution After the Cold War, 1991-2006
4. After Fidel, Under Raul

"Splendid...Sweig displays a talent for succinctness and clarity, as well as a subtle, deep knowledge of Cuban affairs."