From pirates to drug lords : the Post-Cold War Caribbean security environment / edited by Michael C. Desch, Jorge I. Domínguez, and Andrés Serbin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Desch, Michael C. (Michael Charles), 1960-

Domínguez, Jorge I., 1945-

Serbín, Andrés.

Series:

SUNY series in global politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caribbean Area--Politics and government--1945-.

Caribbean Area.

Politics and government.

Caribbean Area--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Caribbean Area--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

National security--Caribbean Area.

National security.

Physical Description:

viii, 161 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]

Summary:

This book examines the crucial and timeless impact Caribbean countries have on the United States and the world, and the methods they have been employing to consolidate their democracies, advance prosperity, and maintain the peace through international cooperation among themselves. Its primary aim is to discuss the dominant threat perceptions and security priorities of regional governments, the varied mechanisms in place to promote regional collective action, and the future agenda of U.S. foreign policy toward the Caribbean. Rooted in an historical analysis of continuity and change in the Caribbean's international subsystem, the book analyzes the Caribbean within a broader international pattern, marking a tension in world affairs between the global and the local. In addition, it explores the challenges to governments and peoples in the region posed by changes in its political economy.

Contents:

Hurricanes are not the only intruders : the Caribbean in an era of global turbulence / James N. Rosenau

The state of the region / Anthony T. Bryan

Globalization and regionalization in the Caribbean basin : the challenges of a sociopolitical agenda for integration / Andrés Serbin

The powers, the pirates, and international norms and institutions in the American Mediterranean / Jorge I. Domínguez

The geography of drug trafficking in the Caribbean / Ivelaw L. Griffith

Security in the greater Caribbean : what role for collective security mechanisms? / Richard Bloomfield

New issues on the Caribbean's national security agenda : drugs, the environment, migration, and democratic stability / Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Defensa Nacional, Venezuela.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791437493

0791437507

OCLC:

37156063