Security in the Caribbean Basin: The Challenge of Regional Cooperation
  • 2000/232 pages
  • Woodrow Wilson Center on Current Studies on Latin America

Security in the Caribbean Basin:

The Challenge of Regional Cooperation

Joseph S. Tulchin and Ralph H. Espach, editors
Paperback: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-55587-884-9

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.

Joseph S. Tulchin is former director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Ralph H. Espach is a doctoral student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Strategic Balance and Confidence-Building Measures in the Americas.