The growing vulnerability of small states: The Caribbean revisited

Round Table

Volumn , Issue 343, 1997, Pages 361-374

  Sanders, Ronald M ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

REGIONAL COOPERATION; SMALL ISLAND STATE; VULNERABILITY;

CARIBBEAN;

EID: 0031414190     PISSN: 00358533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00358539708454372     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Foreword by the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Sir Shridath S. Ramphal, to Vulnerability: Small States in the Global Society: Report of a Commonwealth Consultative Group, London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1985, p v.
2. Ibid.
3. Commonwealth Caribbean small states are: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
4. Larry Rohter, 'Caribbean Nations Find Little Profit in Aiding US Drug War', The New York Times, 24 October 1996, p A13.
5. Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados, 'The Economic Realities of the Caribbean Basin', to the Wilton Park Conference on the Caribbean Basin: New Relationships Within and Beyond the Caribbean, 21 September 1996 (typescript).
6. The three Windward Islands are St Lucia, St Vincent and Dominica. 1987 figures show that the percentage of the population working in the banana industry was 46 per cent for St Lucia, 54 per cent for St Vincent and 50 per cent for Dominica. In 1988, the contribution of banana production to gross domestic product was 36.5 per cent for St Lucia, 24.9 per cent for St Vincent and 32.1 per cent for Dominica.
7. St Lucia's Ambassador to the European Union, Edwin Laurent, cited in 'Banana Trade Under Fire from WTO Panel', Caribbean Insight, Vol 20, No 4, April 1997.
8. Cited by Michael B. Joseph, in European Centre for Development Policy Management Working Paper No 18, 'Post Lomé IV Arrangements must mirror the Principles and Instruments of Lomé: A Perspective from the Banana Sectors of the Windward Islands', The Netherlands, April 1997.
9. Larry Rohter, 'Caribbean Reels in NAFTA's Wake', International Herald Tribune, 31 January 1997.
10. Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica with larger populations and better developed manufacturing and agriculture are probably the only exceptions.
11. Gaddis Smith, 'Haiti: From Intervention to Intervasion', Current History: A Journal of Contemporary World Affairs, Vol 94, No 589, February 1995.
12. See, The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, Pub L. 104-208 enacted on 30 September 1996.
13. See, Ron Sanders, 'The Drug Problem: Policy Options for Caribbean Countries', in Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic and Social Perspectives, Dominguez et al (eds), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
14. See, Statement on Belize made by US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Richard S. Gelbard, on 28 February 1997.
15. See, Don Bohning, 'Antigua Condemns US for Bad Press About Drug Efforts', Miami Herald, 21 November 1996.
16. See, CANA report by Linda Hutchinson, 21 March 1997 from Port-of-Spain.
17. Cited by Larry Rohter, op cit, Note 4.
18. Press release from the Belize Information Service dated 4 March 1997.
19. Communiqué at the conclusion of the Fifth Special Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community held in Bridgetown, Barbados on 16 December 1996 and issued by the CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana, 17 December 1996.
20. Ibid.
21. Op cit, Note 11.
22. See, 'Cuba Aims at External Deficit Reduction', in Caribbean Insight, Vol 20, No 2, February 1997.
23. Ibid.
24. For a fuller discussion of this see, Ron Sanders, 'Cuba: Ripe for Caribbean Community Joint Ventures', CANA Business: The Financial Magazine of the Caribbean Community, September 1993.
25. The six are: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent and The Grenadines.
26. Cited in Susan George, A Fate Worse Than Debt, London, Penguin Books, 1990, p 245.