U.S.-Cuban Communication And Cooperation On Airline Hijacking (1968-1973)

The dissertation is mainly based on archives from Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), and partly based on documents from Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS), the American Presidency Project and Castro Speech Data Base in The University of Texas at Austin Latin American Network Information Center (LANlC) to research the U.S.-Cuban communication and cooperation on airline hijacking from the later Johnson period to the Nixon period (1968-1973).The dissertation not only shows the history details of communication and cooperation, but also conducts a comprehensive analysis and research on airline hijacking with U.S.-Cuban relations. The reasons U.S. and Cuba decided to collaborate on hijacking problem were their domestic situations and foreign policies to each other as well as the risks of airline hijacking. Figuring out the relationship of formers is helpful to understand the turning points in the cooperation process of two countries and the transitions of U.S.-Cuban relations. In a word, the settlement of U.S.-Cuban airline hijacking afforded practical experiences for international Aviation Security at that time, started the U.S.-Cuban Detente and provided a good model of hostile states’ cooperation on global issues in the Cold War.