Looking Past the Colossus: The Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores in Havana and Cuban Foreign Relations during the Cold War
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Abstract
This article offers a brief historiographical overview of how the Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ACMINREX) in Havana has expanded the scholarship of Cuban foreign relations during the Cold War. Beginning with foundational works from John Kirk and Piero Gleijeses, ACMINREX materials were incorporated into multiarchival methodologies exploring Cuban-Canadian and Cuban-African interactions before illuminating inter-American relations in the 1940s and 1950s. Now, the archive's collections appear in multiple works in global Cold War studies examining Cuba's impact. This article concludes with suggestions on the ACMINREX's value for scholars considering further research into Cuban and inter-American foreign relations. RESUMEN: Este artículo proviene una breve reseña historiográfica sobre cómo el Archivo Central del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ACMINREX) en la Habana ha ampliado la literatura sobre las relaciones cubanas durante la guerra fría. Empezar con las obras fundamentales de John Kirk y Piero Gleijeses, se incorporaron los materiales del ACMINREX con las metodologías multiarchivas sobre las interacciones cubano-canadienses y cubano-africanos antes de iluminar las relaciones interamericanas de los 1940s y 1950s. En este momento, los colecciones del ACMINREX están fortaleciendo varios trabajos de los estudios de la guerra fría global sobre el impacto cubano. El artículo entonces les ofrece sugerencias sobre el valor del ACMINREX a los interesados en investigar las relaciones exteriores cubanas e interamericanas.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".