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Crumbled Small
The
Commonwealth Caribbean in World Politics
(2005)
by
Sir Ronald
Sanders
price:
UK pounds £16.99
US dollars
$25.99
Hardback
264 pages
225 x 145mm
1 870518 86
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Sir
Ronald Sanders is experienced in the affairs of the Caribbean in the
international community having attended Conferences of Foreign Ministers
and Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
for more than twenty years.
The former diplomat served twice as Antigua and Barbuda’s High
Commissioner to the UK, and was the country’s Permanent Representative
to the World Trade Organisation
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Crumbled Small: The Commonwealth Caribbean in World Politics
is a candid account of the situation of Caribbean small states in the global
community written by a former participant in many of the deliberations of
Caribbean governments.
Sir Ronald Sanders declares, “The Caribbean is in crisis.”
Preferential markets for traditional Caribbean products are gone; the
financial services sector is under siege; and tourism is endangered by
natural disasters as well as constant leakage of its earnings from Caribbean
economies.
Drug trafficking has contributed significantly to
rising levels of crime. The problem is overwhelming law enforcement agencies
and weakening the fabric of societies.
The international community is not doing enough to ensure that these small
states do not slide into conditions of high unemployment that will increase
poverty, expand the spread of HIV/Aids and threaten their survival.
Smallness is powerlessness, and each of these small states lacks the
capacity to cope with the challenges that confront them.
The conclusion of this book is compelling: Governments have to face-up to
the crisis, state it boldly to their people and the international community,
and act resolutely to overcome it in the only way that is sensible – and
that is to make their small countries bigger through arrangements of joint
governance that are so patently necessary to make them more viable |
