The Caribbean In World Affairs : The Foreign Policies Of The Englishspeaking States

This book considers the influencers of Caribbean foreign policy, the decision-making process, and the role of the bureaucracy which coordinates and implements policy, describing the outcome of the policy–that is, the behavior and activities or interactions of the English-speaking states.

This book is intended not so much to supply new information concerning the external activities of the English-speaking Caribbean countries as to fill a large gap in the growing literature on the subject by integrating the known information into an analytical framework or model as a first step toward theory building. As such, the book complements the descriptive works on the Caribbean that are already available or in production. The book is also intended to reach the broader audience of those interested in small-state foreign policy in general, that is, those persons to whom the formulation of a model is useful in facilitating comparisons with other countries of similar size. Note that the aim is not to build a "grand theory" of small-state or Caribbean foreign policy, but rather to modify existing middle-range theories of international relations to suit the Caribbean region.