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Counterpoint and Concatenation in the Caribbean: The Substance and Style of Foreign Policy

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GEOPOLITICS OF THE CARIBBEAN: MINISTATES IN A WIDER WORLD. By ANDERSONTHOMAS D. (New York: Praeger, 1984. Pp. 175. $25.95.)

THE CARIBBEAN CHALLENGE: U.S. POLICY IN A VOLATILE REGION. Edited by ERISMANH. MICHAEL. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1984. Pp. 208. $22.50.)

FOREIGN POLICY BEHAVIOR OF CARIBBEAN STATES: GUYANA, HAITI AND JAMAICA. By FAURIOLGEORGES A. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1984. Pp. 356. $23.75 cloth, $12.25 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

John D. Martz*
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
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1. From Scholes's The Listener's Guide to Music, as excerpted in The Music Lover's Handbook, edited by Elie Siegmeister (New York: William Morrow, 1943), 71-72.

2. Abraham Lowenthal credits the phrase to Lloyd Best in The Caribbean Challenge, 187.

3. Basil A. Ince, introduction to Contemporary International Relations of the Caribbean, edited by Ince (Saint Augustine, Trinidad: Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, 1979), iii.

4. The Restless Caribbean: Changing Patterns of International Relations, edited by Richard Millett and W. Marvin Will (New York: Praeger, 1979 and 1984).

5. Among the more useful treatments are Patrick J. McGowen and Klaus-Peter Gottwald, “Small State Foreign Policies: A Comparative Study of Participation, Conflict, and Political and Economic Dependence in Black Africa,” International Quarterly 19, no. 4 (Dec. 1975); Niels Amstrup, “The Perennial Problem of Small States: A Survey of Research Efforts,” Cooperation and Conflict 11, no. 3 (Mar. 1976):163-82; Maurice East, “Size and Foreign Behaviours: A Test of Two Models,” World Politics 25, no. 4 (July 1973):555-76; and also Maurice East, “Foreign Policy-Making in Small States,” Policy Sciences 4, no. 4 (Dec. 1973):491-508.

6. Among the more important works, see the overview of George Philip, Oil and Politics in Latin America: Nationalist Movements and State Companies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). On Venezuela, see also Franklin Tugwell, The Politics of Oil in Venezuela (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975); Gustavo Coronel, The Nationalization of the Venezuelan Oil Industry: From Technocratic Success to Political Failure (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1983); and John D. Martz, “Development and Democracy in Venezuela: Politics and the Management of Petroleum,” in Politics, Policies, and Economic Development in Latin America, edited by Robert Wesson (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1984). For Mexico, see Edward J. Williams, The Rebirth of the Mexican Petroleum Industry (Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1979); and George W. Grayson, The Politics of Mexican Oil (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980). For Ecuador, see John D. Martz, Regime, Politics, and Petroleum: Ecuador's Nationalistic Struggle (forthcoming).

7. Agola Auma-Osolo, “Rationality and Foreign Policy Process,” in Yearbook of World Affairs, 1977 (London: Stevens and Sons, 1977).

8. Robert Rothstein, “Foreign Policy and Development: From Non-Alignment to International Class War,” International Affairs 52, no. 4:599.

9. Edward E. Azar, “Analysis of International Events,” Peace Research Reviews 4 (Nov. 1970):1-106. Also see Azar, “The Issues in Events Research,” in Theory and Practice of Events Research, edited by Azar and Joseph D. Ben-Dak (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1975).

10. An evaluation of instructional usage also reviews positive and negative elements in John Merrill, “Bringing the World to the Classroom: Using FBIS Reports in the International Politics Course,” News for Teachers of Political Science, no. 43 (Fall 1984):1-3.

11. John D. Martz, “Venezuelan Foreign Policy toward Latin America,” in Contemporary Venezuela and Its Role in International Affairs, edited by Robert D. Bond (New York: New York University Press, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977), 161-62. A more recent treatment is Martz, “Ideology and Oil: Venezuela in the Circum-Caribbean,” in Colossus Challenged; The Struggle for Caribbean Influence, edited by E. Michael Erisman and John D. Martz (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1982), 121-49.

12. Charles D. Ameringer, “The Foreign Policy of Democratic Venezuela,” in Venezuela: The Democratic Experience, edited by John D. Martz and David J. Myers, 2nd ed. (New York: Praeger, 1985).

13. Demetrio Boersner, Venezuela y el Caribe: presencia cambiante (Caracas: Monte Avila, 1978). Also see his more recent Relaciones internacionales en América Latina (Mexico City: Nueva Imagen, 1982).

14. Anselm Francis, The Caribbean Basin and Recent Developments in the Law of the Sea and Human Rights in the Commonwealth Caribbean: An International Relations Perspective, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 26 pp.

15. Samuel Silva Gotay, La transformación de la función política en el pensamiento teológico caribeño y latinoamericano, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 37 pp.

16. Selwyn Ryan, Administrative Capability and Choice of Development Strategy: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 25 pp.

17. Anthony Maingot, The State of Florida and the Caribbean, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 34 pp.

18. Ibid.; and Robert Pastor, Caribbean Emigration and U.S. Immigration Policy: Crosscurrents, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 36 pp.

19. Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens, Democratic Socialism and the Capitalist Class: An Analysis of the Relation between Jamaican Business and the PNP Government, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 37 pp.; and Paul W. Ashley, Jamaican Foreign Policy in Transition: From Manley to Seaga, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 19 pp.

20. Carl Stone, The Caribbean and the World Economy: Patterns of Insertion and Contemporary Options, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 23 pp.

21. Marisabel Bras Castro, The Caribbean and World Politics: Continuity, Transformation, and Interdependence, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 22 pp.

22. Edward González, U.S. Strategic Interests in the Caribbean Basin, CISCLA Documento de Trabajo (San Juan: CISCLA, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, 1983), 22 pp.

23. My own discussion of his point is incorporated in “Democracy and the Imposition of Values: Definitions and Diplomacy,” in Latin America, the United States, and the Inter-American System, edited by John D. Martz and Lars Schoultz (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1980), 145-70.

24. Jorge Domínguez, U.S. Interests and Policies in Central America (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1982), 4-5.

25. Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy (New York: Macmillan, 1984), 122.

26. Franklin W. Knight, “Toward a New U.S. Presence in the Caribbean,” in The New Cuban Presence in the Caribbean, edited by Barry B. Levine (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1983), 241.

27. Gustavo Lagos and Horacio H. Godoy, Revolution of Being: A Latin American View of the Future (New York: Free Press, 1977), 92.