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Small States in Global Affairs

Part of the Studies of the Americas Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230610330

ISBN: 978-1-349-53866-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 8, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Global Changes, Foreign Policy, and the Study of Small States

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 1 –24

[In the last decade, both diplomats and scholars have spent a significant amount of time assessing the changes in foreign policy wrought by the changed global environment. (In this book, “foreign policy” refers to the purposive—that is, official and intentional—actions and behavior of states...
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Chapter 2Political-Security Interests

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 25 –54

[Given their small size and small armies (where they exist), the Caricom states—excluding the unique case of Haiti, which, as discussed in the last chapter, early in its history occupied the Dominican Republic—have not had the capacity to engage, and do not desire to engage, in external military...
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Chapter 3Economic and Social Interests

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 55 –87

[Foreign economic policy has assumed a level of importance in the 2000s comparable to the position long held by military and political policy. For the global south, the world attention to economics should have come as a relief inasmuch as these nations’ primary goal has normally been economic...
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Chapter 4Strategic Linkages

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 89 –125

[In view of the security and economic issues that they have faced, what strategies and linkages have Caricom nations opted for over time? This is the questions addressed in this chapter.]
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Chapter 5Diplomatic Interests and Linkages

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 127 –166

[Like all countries, Caricom states want and need for both political and economic reasons to form and deepen the relationships that make them global citizens. Small as they are, these states maintain a long list of diplomatic friendships, with more than one hundred countries in the case of the...
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Chapter 6The Foreign Policy Decision Environment

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 167 –201

[In any society, decisions are made within an environment that is constrained by both international and domestic factors. Decision makers who are less constrained domestically are able to make external policy more freely—although in certain circumstances they may wish to make it appear...
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Chapter 7The Conduct and Management of Caricom Foreign Policy

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 203 –229

[Caricom policy making, including foreign policy making, has traditionally carried a strong executive stamp. However, the need for skilled foreign policy bureaucrats and for an efficiently managed diplomatic machinery has grown as Caricom countries have become more aware of and embroiled in the...
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Chapter 8A Brief Evaluation

Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline Anne

Pages: 231 –234

[One may well ask, why study the international activity of fourteen Caribbean states that are today rather marginal in global security and economic affairs? But these are the same states that once were central to the world economy because of one product, sugar, and also came to occupy a key place...

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