Security in the Caribbean Basin: The Challenge of Regional Cooperation

		ISBN: 978-1-55587-884-9 $17.95
	2000/232 pages/LC: 99-38719 Woodrow Wilson Center on Current Studies on Latin America

Since the end of the Cold War, the security environment of the Caribbean Basin has dramatically changed from the containment of communism to a series of transnational threats—drug trafficking, migratory flows, economic crises, natural disasters—that demand cooperative, multilateral policies. This in turn, argue the authors of Security in the Caribbean Basin, calls for a redefinition of such basic concepts as sovereignty and the nature of national and regional security interests, and a reevaluation of such basic issues as the role of the military in a democracy and the nature of the region's ties to the United States.

Addressing these concerns, and offering both scholarly analysis and operational perspectives, the authors provide a theoretical and practical framework for the development of a more cooperative security system in the region.

• Introduction: U.S. and Caribbean Security Concerns in the Post–Cold War Era—the Editors.
• THE POST-COLD WAR CARIBBEAN SECURITY AGENDA.
• Changing Definitions of "Social Problems" in the Caribbean—A.P. Maingot.
• The United States and the Caribbean at Fin de Siècle: A Time of Transitions—H. Garcia-Muñiz.
• The New Security Agenda in the Caribbean: The Challenge of Cooperation—F. Rojas-Aravena.
• Cooperation in the Caribbean: The Cultural Dimension—R. Hernández.
• NONTRADITIONAL THREATS TO CARIBBEAN SECURITY.
• The Fear of Illegal Aliens: Caribbean Migration as a National and Regional Security Threat—J. Duany.
• Migration and Regional Security: Besieged Borders and Caribbean Diasporas—L. Bobea.
• Drugs and the Emerging Security Agenda in the Caribbean—I.L. Griffith.
• Initiatives for Cooperative Regional Security: Reintegrating Cuba into Regional Projects—I. Jaramillo Edwards.
• TOWARD A COOPERATIVE SECURITY FRAMEWORK: PRACTITIONERS' VIEWS.
• Toward a New Political Framework for Migration in the Caribbean—R.L. Bach. Initiatives for Cooperative Regional Security: The Eastern Caribbean Regional Security System—R. Lewis.
• The Cooperative Agenda of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Caribbean—T. Keck.
• The New Caribbean Security Agenca—W. Vos.
• A Call for the Redefinition of Regional and National Interests—J.E. Noble Espejo.
• Maritime Counter Narcotic Agreements: The Cop on the Beat—R. Beardsworth.
• CONCLUSION.
• Looking Ahead: Regional Relations in the Post-Cold War Era—the Editors.