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Sunday Cuba's Council of State will name the island's new president. Tuesday, an ailing Fidel Castro said he would not accept the post, ending his nearly fifty years of rule. A look at the interim leadership of his expected successor and brother, Raul Castro, and the U.S. response to changes in Cuba.
Frank Calzon, executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba
Philip Peters, vice president, Lexington Institute
David Adams, Latin American correspondent, St. Petersburg Times
Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce
Diane invites listeners to join the discussion of this classic treatise on leadership and power.
Michael Lind, Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author, with Ted Halstead, of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (2001). He also wrote "The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life" (2006)
Patrick Deneen, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, he teaches a course on political and social thought that includes Machiavelli's "The Prince."
Luca Ferrari, First Counselor for Public and Congressional Affairs of the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C.
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