Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean

345 Pages·1990·31.764 MB·English

by  Anthony T. Bryan, J. Edward Greene, Timothy M. Shaw (eds.)

PEACE, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY IN
THE CARIBBEAN
Also by Anthony T. Bryan
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES AND THE
COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN (editor)
ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (coeditor)
Also by J. Edward Greene
RACE VS POLITICS IN GUYANA
RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT
SCIENCES IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING
CARIBBEAN (coauthor)
SMALL BUSINESSES IN BARBADOS (with Christine Barrow)
THE CONFUSED ELECTORATE IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
(with Selwyn Ryan and Jack Marewood}
PEOPLE VS POLITICS IN THE CARIBBEAN
Also by Timothy M. Shaw
AFRICA PROJECTED (editor with Olajide Aluko)
AFRICA IN WORLD POLITICS (editor with Ralph /. Onwuka)
TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA
NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY (editor with Olajide Aluko)
NEWLY INDUSTRIALIZING COUNTRIES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF SOUTH-SOUTH RELATIONS (editor with Jerker Carlsson)
CONFRONTATION AND LIBERATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (coeditor)
CORPORATISM IN AFRICA (coeditor)
COPING WITH AFRICA'S FOOD CRISIS (coeditor)
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICAN FOREIGN POLICY (coeditor)
Peace, Development
and Security in the
Caribbean
Perspectives to the Year 2000
Edited by
Anthony T. Bryan
Professor and Director, Institute of International Relations
University of the West Indies, Trinidad
J. Edward Greene
Director, Institute of Economic and Social Research
University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Timothy M. Shaw
Professor of Political Science
Director of International Development Studies
Dalhousie University, Canada
Palgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN 978-1-349-10246-4 ISBN 978-1-349-10244-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10244-0
©Anthony T. Bryan, J. Edward Greene and Timothy M. Shaw 1990
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 978-0-333-46540-0
All rights reserved. For information, write:
Scholarly and Reference Division,
St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
First published in the United States of America in 1990
ISBN 978-0-312-02394-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peace, development, and security in the Caribbean: perspectives to
the year 2000 I [edited by] Anthony T. Bryan, J. Edward Greene,
Timothy M. Shaw.
p. em.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-312-02394-2
1. West Indies, British-Politics and government. 2. West Indies,
British-National security. 3. Geopolitics-West Indies, British.
4. West Indies, British-Relations-Canada. 5. Canada-Relations
-West Indies, British. I. Bryan, Anthony T. II. Greene, John
Edward. III. Shaw, Timothy M.
F2133.P43 1990
320.9729--dc19 89-30615
CIP
Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Foreword xi
Introduction xiii
PART 1: GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT
1 Dominant Issues in the Role and Responses of Carib
bean Small States
Lloyd Searwar 3
2 The Caribbean Basin: Cockpit of the New World
Roland Ely 34
3 The United States in the Caribbean: Geopolitics and the
Bargaining Capacity of Small States
Anthony P. Maingot 57
4 The Geopolitical Environment: Latin America
Anthony T. Bryan 85
5 Canada and the Security of the Commonwealth Caribbean
Steven Baranyi and Edgar Dosman 102
6 Europe in the Caribbean: from Colonial Hegemony to
Geopolitical Marginality
Colin Clarke 126
PART II: NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
7 Politics and Administration: Outstanding Issues Related
to Peace and Security
Gladstone E. Mills 145
8 The Demographic Basis of Social Instability in the
Caribbean of the Eighties
Patricia Anderson 160
9 Structural Adjustment and Transformation in the Carib
bean: Management Strategies Based on the Lessons of
Experience
Terrence W. Farrell 180
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PART III: THREATS TO NATIONHOOD
10 External Influences and Stability in the Caribbean
J. Edward Greene 205
11 Threats to Territorial Integrity
Anselm Francis 224
12 Threats to National and Cultural Identity
Rex Nettleford 241
PART IV: SMALL STATE RESPONSES
13 International, National and Regional Initiatives to En
hance Security Through Exchange of Information and
Diplomacy - The Commonwealth Report Revisited
Neville 0. Linton 257
14 International, National and Regional Security Arrange-
ments in the Caribbean
Vaughan A. Lewis 281
15 Lessons for the Caribbean from Small States of Other
Regions
W. Andrew Axline 299
Selected Bibliography 321
Index 327
List of Contributors
Dr Patricia Anderson Associate Research Fellow, Institute of
Social and Economic Research, Kingston, Jamaica
Professor W. Andrew Axline Professor and Chair, Department of
Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mr Steven Baranyi Doctoral Student in Political Science, York
University, Canada
Dr Anthony T. Bryan Professor and Director, Institute of
International Relations, University of the West Indies, St.
Augustine, Trinidad
Dr Colin Clarke University Lecturer in Geography and Official
Fellow of Jesus College, Jesus College, Oxford, England
Professor Edgar Dosman Centre for Research on Latin American
and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto, Canada
Dr Roland Ely School of Political Science, University of the
Andres, Merida, Venezuela
Dr Terrence W. Farrell Director, Research Department, Central
Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Mr Anselm Francis Institute of International Relations, University
of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad
Dr J. Edward Greene Director, Institute of Social and Economic
Research (ISER), University of the West Indies, Kingston,
Jamaica
Dr Vaughan A. Lewis Director General, Organisation of Eastern
Caribbean States, Castries, St. Lucia
Dr Neville 0. Linton Assistant Director, International Affairs
Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, England
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Dr Anthony P. Maingot Visiting Senior Social Scientist, The Rand
Corporation, Santa Monica, U.S.A.
Professor Gladstone E. Mills Professor of Public Administration
and Government, University of the West Indies, Kingston,
Jamaica
Professor Rex Nettleford Director, Extra Mural Studies, University
of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Mr Geoffrey H. Pearson Executive Director, Canadian Institute for
International Peace and Security, Ottawa, Canada
Mr Lloyd Searwar Visiting Fellow, Institute of International
Relations, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine,
Trinidad
Professor Timothy M. Shaw Professor of Political Science and
Director, International Development Studies, Dalhousie
University, Halifax. Canada
List of Abbreviations
ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific States
(associated with EEC)
CACM Central American Common Market
CARIB CAN Caribbean-Canadian Free Trade Area
CARlC OM Caribbean Community
CARIFfA Caribbean Free Trade Area
CBI Caribbean Basin Initiative
CDCC Caribbean Development and Cooperation
Committee
CDB Caribbean Development Bank
ECLA(C) UN Economic Commission for Latin America
(and the Caribbean)
EEC European Economic Community
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (World Bank)
IMF International Monetary Fund
LAFfA Latin American Free Trade Association
MDC More Developed Country
NAM Non-Aligned Movement
NIEO New International Economic Order
OAS Organisation of American States
ODA Official Development Assistance
OECS Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
RSS Regional Security System (in Eastern
Caribbean)
SADCC Southern African Development Coordination
Conference
SELA Latin American Economic System
UN United Nations
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development
us
United States of America
UWI University of the West Indies
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