Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Map of the Caribbean Basin area

pp xi-xii

Part I - The problem at the interstate level

pp 1-2

1 - Security: the issues

pp 3-17

2 - The Caribbean as a focus for strategic and resource rivalry

pp 18-44

3 - Challenges to security in Central America and the Caribbean

pp 45-59

4 - The 1990s: politics, drugs and migrants

pp 60-72

Part II - The problem at the state level

pp 73-74

5 - Cuba: a client state

pp 75-91

6 - Nicaraguan security perceptions

pp 92-103

7 - The security of small Caribbean states: a case-study of Jamaican experiences in the 1970s

pp 104-120

8 - United States' security perceptions

pp 121-132

Part III - Solutions

pp 133-134

9 - The militarization of the Commonwealth Caribbean

pp 135-154

10 - Pacification, security and democracy: Contadora's role in Central America

pp 155-176

11 - Problems and policies: an agenda for the 1990s

pp 177-203

Index

pp 204-208