Caribbean Geopolitics

Caribbean Geopolitics
Author: Andres Serbin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781685851538

Serbin explores the complex of factors, external and domestic, that have shaped the geopolitical dynamics of the Caribbean region since the emergence, beginning in 1962, of non-Hispanic actors in the form of the newly independent Caribbean states.

Caribbean Geopolitics

Caribbean Geopolitics
Author: Andrés Serbín
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Total Pages: 131
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781555872137

Explores the complexity of factors that have shaped the geopolitical dynamics of the Caribbean region, since the emergence in 1962 of the newly independent Caribbean states. The author focuses on the attempts at co-operation in the region and the impact of the arms race and militarization.

Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin

Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Author: Jean Grugel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349239755

This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.

The Haunting Past

The Haunting Past
Author: Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317456505

First Published in 2015. This book places in firm historical perspective the roots of Caribbean dependency, highlighting the ways in which the region has been and continues to be a pawn in Great Power politics and economics. The past is both haunting and daunting, seriously hampering the region's capacity to pursue an autonomous path. The author develops his argument by focusing on how politics, economics and race have shaped Caribbean history and contemporary life. Discussions and analysis include examples from the Anglophone, Spanish, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean islands and countries. Thompson also attempts to provide prescriptions that would free the region from the shackles of the past and place the countries on the path to independence.

Geopolitics, Security, and U.S. Strategy in the Caribbean Basin

Geopolitics, Security, and U.S. Strategy in the Caribbean Basin
Author: David F. Ronfeldt
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1984
Genre: History
ISBN:

This study examines some operational military issues involving the Caribbean Basin, and it reflects the broader concern that answers to operational military questions should depend heavily on answers to more fundamental questions about why and how the United States should be interested in this complex, unstable region. Based on an examination of current trends as well as historical experience since promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, the study advances a conceptual framework that identifies underlying geostrategic principles for guiding U.S. policy in the Basin. The study then proposes specific measures for developing an integrated political, economic, and military strategy that would advance U.S. interests and meet the interests of Basin neighbors.

The Quest for Security in the Caribbean

The Quest for Security in the Caribbean
Author: Ivelaw L. Griffith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317454979

This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers a wealth of information about the history, politics, economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit, not on a selective case-study basis, as is usually done. He assesses Caribbean security within a theoretical framework where four factors are critical: perceptions of the political elites; capabilities of the states; the geopolitics of the area; and the ideological orientations of the parties in power. Political and economic issues are judged to be as relevant to security as military factors. The author identifies safeguards which countries in the region may take in the coming decade.

The Caribbean on the Edge

The Caribbean on the Edge
Author: Winston Dookeran
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487529465

In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of "populism," and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap to a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often at a policy standstill pondering which way and how to turn. Winston Dookeran traces ideas that have evolved in development and diplomacy over the last decade to identify the path for new analytical leadership. The Caribbean on the Edge deeply engages the political issues involved in development, governance, and diplomacy. Examining various schools of thought that influence policy choices, The Caribbean on the Edge discusses new approaches and risk factors that are aligned with the current realities in the region. Above all, this book is about the development of a new mindset that will usher in a radical shift in thinking, policy, and practice in order to unlock the paralysis of a Caribbean on the edge.

Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean

Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean
Author: Winston Dookeran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2016-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317157753

The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem, trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is a useful tool not only for those specialists and students of regionalism but for all those putting their hands to the task of nation-building and those interested in the development processes of small states and economies. At the same time, this book is a comprehensive historical record especially highlighting hindrances to development in this region. This study raises two important issues: the ’political imperative of convergence’ and the need for ’appropriate correcting mechanisms’ that align the needs of the local with the regional. It is a volume that underlines the need for a change in strategy and makes proposals as to how to go about making those changes.