International, National and Regional Initiatives to Enhance Security Through Exchange of Information and Diplomacy — The Commonwealth Report Revisited

Neville O. Linton

Chapter 13 in Peace, Development and Security in the Caribbean, 1990, pp 257-280 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The origins of the 1985 Commonwealth Report Vulnerability: Small States in the Global Society 1 lay in the political crisis in the Caribbean in late-1983 which centred around the intervention in Grenada. These events made the heads of government ‘acutely aware of the peculiar vulnerability of small states’ and thus they called for a‘study of the special needs of small states including their security needs’.2 But this was not the beginning of the Commonwealth’s concern with ‘small states’ as, since the 1979 Heads of Government Meeting in Lusaka, the Secretariat has been mandated to have a special programme to assist ‘small, specially disadvantaged and island developing states’.

Keywords: Foreign Policy; Small State; Foreign Minister; International Arena; Middle Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10244-0_13

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