Hare Interviewed by PRI on Raul Castro’s Successor
Amb. Paul Webster Hare, Senior Lecturer at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was recently interviewed for several articles on Miguel Díaz-Canel, the successor to Raúl Castro in Cuba.
Hare was interviewed for an April 19, 2018 article by PRI entitled “Castro Steps Down as Díaz-Canel Assumes Cuban Presidency.”
From the text of the article:
Paul Hare, a former British ambassador to Cuba and now a senior lecturer at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, said that Díaz-Canel would have to give the revolution “a new spin. The key will be in accepting inequality, and in accepting that material ambition is good for the revolution. It has to be.”
Hare was also interviewed by The Guardian on April 20, 2018 for an article entitled “Cuban Leadership Changes, But That’s All For Now.“
From the text of the article:
“Obviously Raul’s behavior will be viewed closely but if he undermines Diaz-Canel that will be seen as Raul admitting having made the wrong choice. And also suggest the very idea of a smooth transition was being challenged,” said Paul Webster Hare, a professor of international relations at Boston University and former British ambassador to Cuba.
“So Raul has invested a lot in Diaz-Canel and needs him to survive.”
Amb. Hare teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication and on Cuba in Transition. His novel, “Moncada – A Cuban Story”, set in modern Cuba, was published in May 2010. His book “Making Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World.’ was published in early 2015.