Shridath Ramphal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1199827 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shridath Ramphal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shridath |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramphal |
| SIGNATURE | RAMPHAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Commonwealth Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 38 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen and her stand against racism in the Commonwealth
The Editor of The Round Table has invited my opinion ‘on the subject of the unfortunate controversy that Queen Elizabeth has been finding herself in recently, namely of racism’.I am uninformed abou
Mandela’s Freedom, the Commonwealth and the Apartheid Axis
This article gives a personal perspective on the importance of the Commonwealth in the international campaign against apartheid, particularly in pushing for economic and financial sanctions, in the face of the truculent and sustained opposition of the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. It covers the attempt to assist a negotiated end to apartheid through the mission of the Eminent Persons Group. It also recounts Mandela’s relationship wit…
Brexit
‘No, Pi, we didn’t win; everybody lost.’ Not spoken by David Cameron to his young daughter as the Brexit votes came in at dawn on 24 June 2016—but they might have been. They were in fact spoken 58
The United States in the Caribbean
This article traces the origins of the military invasion launched by the United States of America in Grenada in 1983, and describes the efforts made by the author as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth to restore the country to constitutional government and the rule of law. The author believes that Caribbean governments had let themselves down through a majority of them siding with the American invasion. He underlines the need for global societ…
Ireland
This article argues that, as the modern Commonwealth celebrates its 60th anniversary, the time has come for Ireland—which left the organisation in April 1949 baulking at the prospect of ‘allegiance’ to the British Crown—to return to the fold, now that Republican constitutions are common among Commonwealth members and new entrants, without historic links with Britain and the Crown, have been welcomed in
Glimpses of the Commonwealth—at 80
Education
The 2009 UK Forum for International Education and Training conference theme, politics, policies and progress in education, can be illustrated from experiences of government in Guyana, of the role of the Secretary General of the Commonwealth and of influential UN commissions. Tremendous progress has been made in the expansion and development of Commonwealth education systems over the past 50 years, although many obstacles have been encountered. Un…
The Second Commonwealth of Nations
[This article first appeared in 1950 in King's Counsel, the student magazine of King's College London, where the author was then a student of law. The article is remarkable for its prescience, as i
Global Governance or a new imperium
In 1995 a Commission on Global Governance sought greater international cooperation and a deeper commitment to consensus to replace a preoccupation with political, economic and military power. It urged a series of reforms on the United Nations and a step towards the management of global economic interdependence. In response there was resistance and global governance being relegated to the periphery instead of being at the heart of globalization. I…
The Commonwealth's need for renewal
Until 1989 the prevailing orthodoxy within the Commonwealth ruled out interference in the internal affairs of another member state. The Ugandan crisis and the behaviour of Idi Amin forced a change in attitude. A former secretarygeneral of the Commonwealth, Sir Shridath Ramphal starts by tracing the developing attitudes to human rights and democracy from that point to the present, and questions the basis for insisting on democracy within nation st…
The commonwealth in the global neighbourhood
The club‐like relationship between government leaders and officials within the Commonwealth is reflected in the Heads of Government meetings—they are less meetings of national delegations than of the heads themselves. The shortening of the meetings, to almost half their former size, means that more will now be done by officials and less by the heads themselves. Nevertheless the meetings are unique in the spectrum of international forums as heads …
Population Growth and Environmental Issues
Peace in Our Global Neighbourhood
Law and intervention
In its international context, security has traditionally been defined as the security of states, the protection of their sovereignty and their physical integrity. Human society has, however, progressed to a stage where it is no longer comfortable with the exclusivity of that definition. It wants people to be brought within the concept of security. It feels that the world community should be concerned not only with the interests of states but also…
Nigeria
World Language Opportunities, Challenges, Responsibilities
A Time to Close Ranks
It is something of an irony that 500 years after Columbus was found wandering on the shores of San Salvador uncertain where he was it is West Indians who should be wandering, in danger of being lost even within our region, much less in the wider world. The challenges are formidable and you will not be surprised, that, at the opening of TRINCOM/92 devoted to Caribbean media and Telecommunications in the Information
Sovereign default
Vivat, Floreat, Crescat (UWI 40th Anniversary Convocation Address)
Reflections on ‘Vancouver’
A world without order
Why the EPG is right
Canada and the Commonwealth
The commonwealth since Saskatoon
Federalism in the West Indies
Not by unity alone
The commonwealth in the global neighbourhood
The club‐like relationship between government leaders and officials within the Commonwealth is reflected in the Heads of Government meetings—they are less meetings of national delegations than of the heads themselves. The shortening of the meetings, to almost half their former size, means that more will now be done by officials and less by the heads themselves. Nevertheless the meetings are unique in the spectrum of international forums as heads …
The United States in the Caribbean
This article traces the origins of the military invasion launched by the United States of America in Grenada in 1983, and describes the efforts made by the author as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth to restore the country to constitutional government and the rule of law. The author believes that Caribbean governments had let themselves down through a majority of them siding with the American invasion. He underlines the need for global societ…
The Second Commonwealth of Nations
[This article first appeared in 1950 in King's Counsel, the student magazine of King's College London, where the author was then a student of law. The article is remarkable for its prescience, as i
Global Governance or a new imperium
In 1995 a Commission on Global Governance sought greater international cooperation and a deeper commitment to consensus to replace a preoccupation with political, economic and military power. It urged a series of reforms on the United Nations and a step towards the management of global economic interdependence. In response there was resistance and global governance being relegated to the periphery instead of being at the heart of globalization. I…
Peace in Our Global Neighbourhood
World Language Opportunities, Challenges, Responsibilities
Why the EPG is right
Canada and the Commonwealth
Small is beautiful but vulnerable
Our and the world's advantage
Journal Article ‘Our and the world's advantage’: the constructive Commonwealth Get access Shridath Ramphal Shridath Ramphal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 371–389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617568 Published: 01 July 1984
The other world in this one
The Constitution of Australia
Federal Constitution-Making in the British West Indies
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Federalism in the West Indies
The Constitution of Australia
Fundamental Rights—The Need For A New Jurisprudence
(1962). Fundamental Rights—The Need For A New Jurisprudence. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 139-144
The other world in this one
Labor's International Role
Lane Kirkland, Howard D. Samuel, Benjamin A. Sharman, Jack N. Behrman, Everett M. Kassalow, Shridath S. Ramphal, Peter Henle, Clas-Erik Odhner, Labor's International Role, Foreign Policy, No. 26 (Spring, 1977), pp. 204-246
Not by unity alone
International Co-operation and Development
To speak of international co-operation and development is to speak of the past no less than the present - and of the future also. Indeed, a thin line divides evaluation of the past from analysis of the present, and both from prospects for the future. Let me start with the element of continuum.The Limits To Political IndependenceIt is in man's nature that each generation in turn reflects and inaugurates change. But the character and pace of change…
The commonwealth in the 1980s
South‐South
I cannot think of any other year in the post-war period that started so badly, in so many ways for so many people in so many lands, as 1982. That is a sombre reflection; but it is the reality of the moment and we will get everything else wrong unless we truly appreciate the international environment in which we are operating. The world faces great danger all the world. But, if I can turn Dickens around, I would say: 'It is the worst oftimes, it i…
Small is beautiful but vulnerable
Our and the world's advantage
Journal Article ‘Our and the world's advantage’: the constructive Commonwealth Get access Shridath Ramphal Shridath Ramphal Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Summer 1984, Pages 371–389, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617568 Published: 01 July 1984
Disarmament, Development and Security
There exists a dynamic triangular relationship between disarmament, development and security
Why the EPG is right
Canada and the Commonwealth
The commonwealth since Saskatoon
Reflections on ‘Vancouver’
A world without order
Sovereign default
Vivat, Floreat, Crescat (UWI 40th Anniversary Convocation Address)
A Time to Close Ranks
It is something of an irony that 500 years after Columbus was found wandering on the shores of San Salvador uncertain where he was it is West Indians who should be wandering, in danger of being lost even within our region, much less in the wider world. The challenges are formidable and you will not be surprised, that, at the opening of TRINCOM/92 devoted to Caribbean media and Telecommunications in the Information
Peace in Our Global Neighbourhood
Law and intervention
In its international context, security has traditionally been defined as the security of states, the protection of their sovereignty and their physical integrity. Human society has, however, progressed to a stage where it is no longer comfortable with the exclusivity of that definition. It wants people to be brought within the concept of security. It feels that the world community should be concerned not only with the interests of states but also…
Nigeria
World Language Opportunities, Challenges, Responsibilities
Political science (34 works) · Law (25 works) · Law (22 works) · Commonwealth (15 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (10 works) · History (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (9 works)