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Paul Webster Hare

Lecturer in International Relations at Boston University

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    Ambassador Paul Webster Hare was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He now teaches international relations at Boston University.

    Hare graduated with First Class Honors in Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1972 and from the College of Law in London in 1976. He worked for 5 years in the private sector, in law and investment banking, before entering the British Diplomatic Service. He served overseas at the UK Representation to the EU in Brussels, in Portugal, New York, and in Venezuela as Deputy Head of Mission. He was Head of the Foreign Office’s Non-Proliferation Department and the first Project Director for the UK’s presence at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

    Hare is a Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and  served as president of the British Baseball Federation from 2000-01. He has been designated a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

    Ambassador Hare 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, “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.

    He has written widely on Cuba with recent articles appearing in, inter alia, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, The Miami Herald and the Huffington Post. He served on the Brookings Institution core group on Cuba and wrote papers on Cuba published by Brookings.  He is consulted regularly on Cuba issues by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, Agence France and the BBC.

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    The Memo: Tillerson flap puts spotlight on Trump’s foreign policy moves

    October 5, 2017

    The Hill Paul Webster Hare The furor this week over whether Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called President Trump a “moron” is the most dramatic example yet of an administration to which normal rules do not apply… Expert quote: “You’ve got a situation where messages are put out strongly moving in one direction, and then they’re reconditioned and moved in […]

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    Cuban military’s tentacles reach deep into economy

    June 15, 2017

    Reuters quoting Paul Hare, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “American tourists strolling the ample squares and narrow streets of colonial Havana may not know it, but from novelist Ernest Hemingway’s famed Floridita bar to Sloppy Joe’s eatery, they are probably patronizing businesses owned by Cuba’s military…” Expert […]

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    Fidel Castro: Jeremy Corbyn praises ‘huge figure’

    November 29, 2016

    BBC News Paul Webster Hare, Pardee School/College of Arts & Sciences Mr Corbyn praised the former Cuban president’s revolutionary “heroism”, his presence on the world stage and Cuba’s health and education systems… Expert quote: “For many Cubans its almost impossible to conceive of a world, a Cuba, without Fidel. So change will have to be […]

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    More bad news for new ideas in Cuba

    August 30, 2016

    Miami Herald By Paul W. Hare, Pardee School of Global Studies, College of Arts & Sciences “Very few without Castro in their name have survived in the leadership of the Cuban Revolution as long as Eusebio Leal…” View full article

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    Effects of Obama’s visit could reshape Cuba

    March 23, 2016

    AFP Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba was light on immediate results but was heavy on symbolism, and its effects have the ability to shift Cuba’s future, analysts said Tuesday… Expert quote: “The most important effect of the whole visit, in my […]

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    Obama, Castro hold groundbreaking Cuba talks

    March 21, 2016

    AFP Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro met Monday in Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for groundbreaking talks on ending the decades-long standoff between the two neighbors… Expert quote: “I think Raul does not want a warm relationship […]

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    Raul Castro: the revolutionary who made peace

    March 18, 2016

    AFP Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Cuban President Raul Castro has proved far more pragmatic than his brother, iconic revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, ushering in a historic thaw in relations with the United States while managing to preserve the communist regime… Expert quote: “Venezuela and Chavez seemed […]

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    Cubans Say ‘Nyet’ to Russian, Hoping to Learn English

    November 20, 2015

    Wall Street Journal (subscription required) Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Cuba’s Museum of the Revolution defiantly jabs at former U.S. President Ronald Reagan with a mural of a cartoon cowboy and sign saying: “Thanks you cretin for h lped us TO STRENGTHEN THE REVOLUTION.”… Expert quote: “Increasingly, […]

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    Pope Francis, Arriving in Cuba, Seeks to Revive Church

    September 20, 2015

    New York Times (subscription required) Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies In brokering the historic thaw between Cuba and the United States, Pope Francis stepped squarely into the thorny realm of geopolitics, sending letters to the presidents of both nations, playing host to secret meetings in the halls […]

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    Pope Faces a Challenge in Opening Cuba to the Church

    September 18, 2015

    New York Times (subscription required) Paul Webster Hare, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies In brokering the historic thaw between Cuba and the United States, Pope Francis stepped squarely into the thorny realm of geopolitics, sending letters to the presidents of both nations, playing host to secret meetings in the halls […]

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