Book Description
The September 11 terrorist attack on the USA has resulted in a heightened awareness of security issues at the national, regional and global levels and has underscored the fact that there are no completely 'safe' countries or regions.
The Caribbean region is no exception, but understanding security challenge and change in the Caribbean context requires a broad-based multi-dimensional approach to include new untraditional and unfamiliar threats like economic and environmental vulnerability, HIV/AIDS and drugs to name a few.
This edited volume is multi-dimensional in approach and structure and regional and global in scope. A survey or 'reality-check' of the contemporary security arena in the Caribbean region provides the background for an exploration of the actual and potential impact of the events of September 11. At the same time, the volume provides an assessment of the responses by Caribbean states while examining the institutional and operational terrorism response capacity of security agencies in the region. The contributors are drawn from academia, policy-makers in the public sector and front-line security practitioners.
Although the volume focuses on the Caribbean region, the reality of global security interdependence requires the contributors to cast a wide geographical ambit in discussing hemispheric security issues.