Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror: Challenge and Change
- Publisher:
- Ian Randle Publishers Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2004-11-16
- Authors:
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Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
(Professor of Political Science and Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at York College of The City University of New York) - ISBN:
- 978-976-637-142-5
Description:
The security issues which have come into prominence since the September 11 terrorist attack in the USA provide both the starting point and the focus for this comprehensive survey of contemporary security issues in the Caribbean. This volume assesses the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Caribbean states and examines the institutional and operational terrorism response capacity of security agencies in the region. However, understanding security challenge and change in the Caribbean context requires a broad-based multidimensional approach; terrorism for the small, open and vulnerable nation states of the Caribbean region is a real security issue but even more so, is a range of nontraditional threats like crime, drug trafficking, territorial disputes, environmental degradation and the rapid spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. How these states adapt policies and practices to adjust to the new regional and global circumstances represent the challenge and the change. Professor Griffith has sought the contributions from an impressive array of academics, policy-makers and frontline security practitioners from the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and the USA, and has himself developed a new and path-breaking conceptual approach to security called the Discrete Multidimensional Security Framework. Among the other outstanding features of this volume is a comprehensive listing of the border and territorial disputes in the Caribbean Basin with a summary of the status of each dispute and over 90 tables, figures and maps.
Part 1. Conceptions and Contentions
Part 3. The Non-traditional Security Scenario
Part 4. 9/11
- United States-Caribbean Relations: The Impact of 9/11
- Caribbean-European Relations: Did 9/11 Make a Difference?
- Agenda Setting and Regionalism in the Greater Caribbean: Responses to 9/11
- Economic and Trade Impact of 9/11
- The Impact of 9/11 on Migration Relations Between the Caribbean and the United States
Part 6. Regional Coping Strategies Beyond Terrorism