Drugs and Security in the Caribbean is a comprehensive study of
the drug dilemma in the Caribbean that reveals the severity of the
threat illegal drug trafficking poses to the small countries of
that region.
The illegal drug traffic in the Caribbean is a persistent
problem for law enforcement in the United States, but for small
countries in that region it threatens their very existence. The
increase in the production and flow of drugs undermines the
political stability and economic development because it leads to
crime, corruption, and arms trafficking and affects tourism. And
although all these countries, except Cuba, are democracies, the
need to commit military and paramilitary forces in the war against
drugs can seriously undermine democratic governance in those
nations.
Ivelaw Griffith has undertaken the first extensive study of
illegal drugs in the Caribbean by examining the nature and scope of
drug operations, probing the security implications of those
operations and the problems they cause, and assessing
countermeasures for dealing with drug traffic and resulting
problems. By disclosing the various elements of the drugs-security
matrix, Griffith argues that the sovereignty of Caribbean countries
is under siege, not only from drug operators but also from other
states, owing to the transnational nature of drug trafficking and
the inability of most small countries to cope with it. Drugs and
Security in the Caribbean makes it clear that there is no simple
solution to the drug threat. As long the demand for drugs persists
in the United States and Europe, drug trafficking in the Caribbean
will be nearly impossible to control.
Included in the book are two appendixes: the first is the 1996
anti-drugs treaty between the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago, a model
for agreements signed with other countries; the second is a
Caribbean Counternarcotics "Who's Who."
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