The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay

by Michael J. Strauss

Post-2002 events at the U.S. naval facility at Guantanamo Bay have generated a spate of books on its use as a detention center in the U.S. fight against terrorism. Yet the crucial enabling factor-the lease that gave the U.S. control over the territory in Cuba-has till now escaped any but cursory consideration. The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a leased territory where the U.S. has no sovereignty and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313377820
• ISBN13: 9780313377822
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"