The United States in the Caribbean: Geopolitics and the Bargaining Capacity of Small States

Anthony P. Maingot

Chapter 3 in Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean, 1990, pp 57-84 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the overarching questions of our age is whether in a world of superpowers it is possible for archipelagic regions of small states to formulate and execute their own preferred security arrangements. In this specific case, the issue is whether the mini-states of the Englishspeaking Caribbean have the autonomy to decide and then implement their own strategies of security. Granted that all international politics — of small as well as of large states — invariably involve trade-offs, manoeuvring and often compromise, are the trade-offs of the small West Indian state vis-à-vis the United States so one-sided as to make a mockery of the concept and principle of sovereignty?

Keywords: Foreign Policy; Small State; Caribbean Basin; National Security Council; Military Security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10244-0_3

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