Introduction : Cuban politics and economics in the 1990s / Jorge F. Pérez-López -- Leadership strategies and mass support : Cuban politics before and after the 1991 Communist Party Congress / Jorge I. Domínguez -- The Party, the Fourth Congress, and the process of counterreform / Juan M. Del Aguila -- Continuity and change in Cuba's international relations in the 1990s / Damián J. Fernández -- Cuba's economic strategy and alternative futures / Archibald R.M. Ritter -- Reflections on economic policy : Cuba's food program / Sergio G. Roca -- Cuba's labor adjustment policies during the special period / Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge F. Pérez-López -- Tourism in Cuba : a development strategy for the 1990s? / María Dolores Espino -- Cuban biotechnology : a first world approach to development / Julie M. Feinsilver -- Islands of capitalism in an ocean of socialism : joint ventures in Cuba's development strategy / Jorge F. Pérez-Lopez -- Reforming Cuba's economic system from within / Andrew Zimbalist -- Economic reform in Cuba : lessons from Eastern Europe / Jorge F. Pérez-López.