This study examines some operational military issues involving the Caribbean Basin, and it reflects the broader concern that answers to operational military questions should depend heavily on answers to more fundamental questions about why and how the United States should be interested in this complex, unstable region. Based on an examination of current trends as well as historical experience since promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine, the study advances a conceptual framework that identifies underlying geostrategic principles for guiding U.S. policy in the Basin. The study then proposes specific measures for developing an integrated political, economic, and military strategy that would advance U.S. interests and meet the interests of Basin neighbors.

Serbin explores the complex of factors, external and domestic, that have shaped the geopolitical dynamics of the Caribbean region since the emergence, beginning in 1962, of non-Hispanic actors in the form of the newly independent Caribbean states.

Explores the complexity of factors that have shaped the geopolitical dynamics of the Caribbean region, since the emergence in 1962 of the newly independent Caribbean states. The author focuses on the attempts at co-operation in the region and the impact of the arms race and militarization.

A collection of interdisciplinary essays which attempt to analyze cultural, economic, political and social diversities and resources from alternative regional and international viewpoints. The contributors are scholars familiar with the intricacies and idiosyncracies of Caribbean development.