Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror: Challenge and Change

Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror: Challenge and Change
ISBN-10
9766371423
ISBN-13
9789766371425
Category
Political Science
Pages
552
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Ian Randle Publishers
Author
Ivelaw L. Griffith

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 untraditional 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.

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