Background
Gleijeses, Piero was born on August 4, 1944 in Venice, Italy. Son of Antonio and Letterina (Niccoli) Gleijeses.
Gleijeses, Piero was born on August 4, 1944 in Venice, Italy. Son of Antonio and Letterina (Niccoli) Gleijeses.
Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, Institute University de Haute Etudes International, Geneva, Switzerland, 1972.
He is best known for his scholarly studies of Cuban foreign policy under Fidel Castro, which earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005, and has also published several works on US intervention in Latin America. He is the only foreign scholar to have been allowed access to the Cuba's Castro-era government archives. Gleijeses gained a PhD in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and knows Afrikaans, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
His 2002 book, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976, was an exhaustive re-examination of the Cuban involvement in the decolonization of Africa. Aside from scholarly journals, Gleijeses has contributed to such publications as Foreign Affairs and the London Review of Books.
( The most thorough account yet available of a revolution...)
(Book by Gleijeses, Professor Piero)
Married Setsuko Ono; 1 child, Sheeba.