{"id":27936,"date":"2017-03-31T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=27936"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:50:47","slug":"hare-gives-lecture-on-ongoing-changes-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/03\/31\/hare-gives-lecture-on-ongoing-changes-in-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Hare Gives Lecture on Ongoing Changes in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/12\/CF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2016\/12\/CF-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flag of Cuba\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/paul-webster-hare\/\">Amb.\u00a0Paul Webster Hare,<\/a><span>\u00a0Senior Lecturer at the <\/span><span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a recent lecture as part of\u00a0the Hamilton Hall Lecture Series on March 30, 2017 on the ongoing changes to Cuban politics and culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Amb. Hare, the<\/span><span>\u00a0British ambassador to Cuba from 2001 to 2004, spoke at the lecture <\/span>held in Salem, MA. His lecture was entitled &#8220;How Much Is Cuba Changing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Amb. Hare also discussed the\u00a0outlook for Cuba\u00a0over the next decade including whether there be a transition away from the Castro regime. Amb. Hare also examined whether President Obama\u2019s efforts to\u00a0normalize relations\u00a0could potentially be reversed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hare was the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04.\u00a0He worked for 5 years in the private sector, in law and investment banking, before serving for 30 years in the British Diplomatic Service. Hare\u00a0 served overseas in Portugal, New York, at the UK Representation at the EU in Brussels, and in Venezuela as Deputy Head of Mission.\u00a0He has written two policy briefs for Brookings: \u201cThe Odd Couple; The EU and Cuba 1996-2008,\u201d and \u00a0\u201cUS Public Diplomacy for Cuba: Why It\u2019s Needed and How to Do It.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/paul-webster-hare\/\">Amb. Paul Hare<\/a> teaches classes at Boston University on Diplomatic Practice, Arms Control, Intercultural Communication and on Cuba in Transition. In Spring 2016 he will offer a new class on Public Diplomacy. His novel, \u201cMoncada \u2013 A Cuban Story\u201d, set in modern Cuba, was published in May 2010. His book \u201cMaking Diplomacy Work; Intelligent Innovation for the Modern World.\u2019 was published in early 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amb. Paul Hare spoke as part of the Hamilton Hall Lecture Series in Salem, MA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8414],"tags":[9860,1837,10130,8710,8539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27936\/revisions\/36923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}