Ronald Sanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Sanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Sanders |
| SIGNATURE | SANDERS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Booz Allen Hamilton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Shridath Ramphal
Practically speaking
The Commonwealth and the international legal order
This article, based on a slightly edited transcript of a lecture delivered by the author at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), London on 7 March 2022, offers a wide-ranging survey of the Commonwealth’s contributions to the maintenance of the international legal order against the backdrop of recent developments, including the military action launched by Russia in Ukraine
Caribbean Secession—Disruptive but not Definitive
Throughout history, communities which have been separated by religion, ethnicity and distance (most especially water), have experienced secessionist movements. Such movements are now current in rel
Leading the National Security Enterprise
However, are they prepared for what we ask of them? As former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen and others (including myself) have argued, almost everything of any consequence that government does today is collaboratively co-produced by a complex collection of public and private entities, from other agencies and levels of government, to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and even other countries, and international bodies. 1 This i…
Globalisation has left Commonwealth Caribbean Small States Behind
‘The tide of globalisation has yet to lift all boats. For too many, the path to prosperity has proven elusive’. That was the profound observation of United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterr
Tell It Like It Is
In addition to difficulties gathering and evaluating complete information, cognitive limitations and biases preclude individuals from making fully value‐maximizing choices when making decisions. It has been suggested that, done properly, involving advisors can compensate for individual‐level limitations. However, the “groupthink” tradition has highlighted ways group‐aided decision making can fail to live up to its potential. Out of this literatur…
Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean Rescue in the Commonwealth
The EU, Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa
Africa has been divided into four groups of states by the European Union in the negotiation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that will define the relationship between Africa and Europe in the future. The EPAs are unfair. They demand reciprocity between the EU countries collectively and each African country individually and they set conditions that will be demanded by any other country or groups of countries with which African countries s…
I Won't Back Down?” Complexity and Courage in Government Executive Decision Making
Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies of “groupthink” impede their ability to make value‐maximizing choices. From this literature has emerged a normative model that Irving Janis calls “vigilant problem solving,” a process intended for the most complex decisions. To explore its use by senior public officials, the authors interviewed 20 heads of su…
The Commonwealth after Colombo
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Colombo in 2013 was attended by fewer than half the number of Heads of Government. The “retreat” – created as a private meeting of Heads with only the Secretary-General present – was even less well attended by Heads, some of whom left the Meeting early. In part, this situation was due to the controversy that surrounded the hosting of the Meeting by the Sri Lankan government over its hum…
Wang et al. Respond
chronic disease; emergency health service; female; health promotion; human; male; methodology; note; primary health care; prisoner; utilization review, Chronic Disease; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Health Promotion; Humans; Male; Primary Health Care; Prisoners
Engaging Individuals Recently Released From Prison Into Primary Care
Objectives. Individuals released from prison have high rates of chronic conditions but minimal engagement in primary care. We compared 2 interventions designed to improve primary care engagement and reduce acute care utilization: Transitions Clinic, a primary care–based care management program with a community health worker, versus expedited primary care. Methods. We performed a randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2009 among 200 recently rel…
The Work of the Eminent Persons' Group
This article offers some early thoughts on the possible topics that the Eminent Persons' Group might take up for consideration, and sets out the key issues that deserve the Group's attention
Venezuela in the caribbean
In the wake of deteriorating relations between the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the administration of George W. Bush in the USA, Venezuela has sought to expand its influence into Commonwealth Caribbean countries by offering a loan scheme for oil payments. Caricom countries account for almost half the votes in the Organization of American states and the Latin American and Caribbean Group in UN bodies. President Chavez has called on t…
Crime in the Caribbean
Crime in the member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is fast becoming an overwhelming phenomenon beyond the capacity of the individual national police forces to cope with. Drug trafficking has spawned much of this crime which includes murders, aggravated burglary and, in some cases, kidnapping. There is little doubt that the structures and networks of criminal activity have developed with the collusion of persons in the public and priv…
The fight against fiscal colonialism
The twenty-first century unfolded to a strong belief in small states that the world was returning to a system of governance based on power and force rather than fairness and justice. This belief was re-enforced by the actions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in launching its 'Harmful Tax Competition Initiative' in the late 1990s under which it targeted 41 small jurisdictions, mostly in the Caribbean and the Paci…
Commonwealth Edinburgh summit
The Commonwealth after Edinburgh
After the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh the Commonwealth is stronger in many respects. Among the contributing factors to its strength is the re‐commitment to it by the government of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh also set down a marker that the Commonwealth will become increasingly more concerned with economic problems that confront the international community. But, the jury is still out on the Commonwealth's political credibility. If Nigeria c…
The growing vulnerability of small states
Small states are in a worse position today than they were in 1985 when the Commonwealth produced a study of their vulnerability. International terms of trade have badly affected their economies and guaranteed markets and preferential prices for their principal exports are being eroded. Caribbean small states are being pressured by the United States to enter into treaty arrangements undermining their sovereignty. Appeals to international organizat…
The commonwealth must not wake up feeling terrible
As the Millennium approaches, the future of the Commonwealth will depend on how it responds to four main issues—its role in relation to small states, its readiness to discipline wrong‐doing in member countries; the criteria for expansion of its membership; and the strengthening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Commonwealth must continue to help its smaller member states with bread‐and‐butter issues to enable them to retain nat…
Shores of Refuge
Shores of Refuge
The High Walls of Jerusalem
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, The Origins of American Racism
Engaging Individuals Recently Released From Prison Into Primary Care
Objectives. Individuals released from prison have high rates of chronic conditions but minimal engagement in primary care. We compared 2 interventions designed to improve primary care engagement and reduce acute care utilization: Transitions Clinic, a primary care–based care management program with a community health worker, versus expedited primary care. Methods. We performed a randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2009 among 200 recently rel…
I Won't Back Down?” Complexity and Courage in Government Executive Decision Making
Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies of “groupthink” impede their ability to make value‐maximizing choices. From this literature has emerged a normative model that Irving Janis calls “vigilant problem solving,” a process intended for the most complex decisions. To explore its use by senior public officials, the authors interviewed 20 heads of su…
Tell It Like It Is
In addition to difficulties gathering and evaluating complete information, cognitive limitations and biases preclude individuals from making fully value‐maximizing choices when making decisions. It has been suggested that, done properly, involving advisors can compensate for individual‐level limitations. However, the “groupthink” tradition has highlighted ways group‐aided decision making can fail to live up to its potential. Out of this literatur…
The fight against fiscal colonialism
The twenty-first century unfolded to a strong belief in small states that the world was returning to a system of governance based on power and force rather than fairness and justice. This belief was re-enforced by the actions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in launching its 'Harmful Tax Competition Initiative' in the late 1990s under which it targeted 41 small jurisdictions, mostly in the Caribbean and the Paci…
The High Walls of Jerusalem
The growing vulnerability of small states
Small states are in a worse position today than they were in 1985 when the Commonwealth produced a study of their vulnerability. International terms of trade have badly affected their economies and guaranteed markets and preferential prices for their principal exports are being eroded. Caribbean small states are being pressured by the United States to enter into treaty arrangements undermining their sovereignty. Appeals to international organizat…
Shores of Refuge
The Commonwealth after Colombo
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Colombo in 2013 was attended by fewer than half the number of Heads of Government. The “retreat” – created as a private meeting of Heads with only the Secretary-General present – was even less well attended by Heads, some of whom left the Meeting early. In part, this situation was due to the controversy that surrounded the hosting of the Meeting by the Sri Lankan government over its hum…
Venezuela in the caribbean
In the wake of deteriorating relations between the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the administration of George W. Bush in the USA, Venezuela has sought to expand its influence into Commonwealth Caribbean countries by offering a loan scheme for oil payments. Caricom countries account for almost half the votes in the Organization of American states and the Latin American and Caribbean Group in UN bodies. President Chavez has called on t…
Crime in the Caribbean
Crime in the member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is fast becoming an overwhelming phenomenon beyond the capacity of the individual national police forces to cope with. Drug trafficking has spawned much of this crime which includes murders, aggravated burglary and, in some cases, kidnapping. There is little doubt that the structures and networks of criminal activity have developed with the collusion of persons in the public and priv…
Caribbean Secession—Disruptive but not Definitive
Throughout history, communities which have been separated by religion, ethnicity and distance (most especially water), have experienced secessionist movements. Such movements are now current in rel
The Work of the Eminent Persons' Group
This article offers some early thoughts on the possible topics that the Eminent Persons' Group might take up for consideration, and sets out the key issues that deserve the Group's attention
The Commonwealth after Edinburgh
After the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh the Commonwealth is stronger in many respects. Among the contributing factors to its strength is the re‐commitment to it by the government of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh also set down a marker that the Commonwealth will become increasingly more concerned with economic problems that confront the international community. But, the jury is still out on the Commonwealth's political credibility. If Nigeria c…
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands
Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, The Origins of American Racism
The High Walls of Jerusalem
Shores of Refuge
Shores of Refuge
The commonwealth must not wake up feeling terrible
As the Millennium approaches, the future of the Commonwealth will depend on how it responds to four main issues—its role in relation to small states, its readiness to discipline wrong‐doing in member countries; the criteria for expansion of its membership; and the strengthening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The Commonwealth must continue to help its smaller member states with bread‐and‐butter issues to enable them to retain nat…
The growing vulnerability of small states
Small states are in a worse position today than they were in 1985 when the Commonwealth produced a study of their vulnerability. International terms of trade have badly affected their economies and guaranteed markets and preferential prices for their principal exports are being eroded. Caribbean small states are being pressured by the United States to enter into treaty arrangements undermining their sovereignty. Appeals to international organizat…
Commonwealth Edinburgh summit
The Commonwealth after Edinburgh
After the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh the Commonwealth is stronger in many respects. Among the contributing factors to its strength is the re‐commitment to it by the government of the United Kingdom. Edinburgh also set down a marker that the Commonwealth will become increasingly more concerned with economic problems that confront the international community. But, the jury is still out on the Commonwealth's political credibility. If Nigeria c…
The fight against fiscal colonialism
The twenty-first century unfolded to a strong belief in small states that the world was returning to a system of governance based on power and force rather than fairness and justice. This belief was re-enforced by the actions of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in launching its 'Harmful Tax Competition Initiative' in the late 1990s under which it targeted 41 small jurisdictions, mostly in the Caribbean and the Paci…
Crime in the Caribbean
Crime in the member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is fast becoming an overwhelming phenomenon beyond the capacity of the individual national police forces to cope with. Drug trafficking has spawned much of this crime which includes murders, aggravated burglary and, in some cases, kidnapping. There is little doubt that the structures and networks of criminal activity have developed with the collusion of persons in the public and priv…
Venezuela in the caribbean
In the wake of deteriorating relations between the government of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and the administration of George W. Bush in the USA, Venezuela has sought to expand its influence into Commonwealth Caribbean countries by offering a loan scheme for oil payments. Caricom countries account for almost half the votes in the Organization of American states and the Latin American and Caribbean Group in UN bodies. President Chavez has called on t…
The Work of the Eminent Persons' Group
This article offers some early thoughts on the possible topics that the Eminent Persons' Group might take up for consideration, and sets out the key issues that deserve the Group's attention
Engaging Individuals Recently Released From Prison Into Primary Care
Objectives. Individuals released from prison have high rates of chronic conditions but minimal engagement in primary care. We compared 2 interventions designed to improve primary care engagement and reduce acute care utilization: Transitions Clinic, a primary care–based care management program with a community health worker, versus expedited primary care. Methods. We performed a randomized controlled trial from 2007 to 2009 among 200 recently rel…
Wang et al. Respond
chronic disease; emergency health service; female; health promotion; human; male; methodology; note; primary health care; prisoner; utilization review, Chronic Disease; Emergency Service, Hospital; Female; Health Promotion; Humans; Male; Primary Health Care; Prisoners
The Commonwealth after Colombo
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) held in Colombo in 2013 was attended by fewer than half the number of Heads of Government. The “retreat” – created as a private meeting of Heads with only the Secretary-General present – was even less well attended by Heads, some of whom left the Meeting early. In part, this situation was due to the controversy that surrounded the hosting of the Meeting by the Sri Lankan government over its hum…
Lee Kuan Yew’s Caribbean Rescue in the Commonwealth
The EU, Economic Partnership Agreements and Africa
Africa has been divided into four groups of states by the European Union in the negotiation of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) that will define the relationship between Africa and Europe in the future. The EPAs are unfair. They demand reciprocity between the EU countries collectively and each African country individually and they set conditions that will be demanded by any other country or groups of countries with which African countries s…
I Won't Back Down?” Complexity and Courage in Government Executive Decision Making
Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies of “groupthink” impede their ability to make value‐maximizing choices. From this literature has emerged a normative model that Irving Janis calls “vigilant problem solving,” a process intended for the most complex decisions. To explore its use by senior public officials, the authors interviewed 20 heads of su…
Tell It Like It Is
In addition to difficulties gathering and evaluating complete information, cognitive limitations and biases preclude individuals from making fully value‐maximizing choices when making decisions. It has been suggested that, done properly, involving advisors can compensate for individual‐level limitations. However, the “groupthink” tradition has highlighted ways group‐aided decision making can fail to live up to its potential. Out of this literatur…
Leading the National Security Enterprise
However, are they prepared for what we ask of them? As former U.S. Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Thad Allen and others (including myself) have argued, almost everything of any consequence that government does today is collaboratively co-produced by a complex collection of public and private entities, from other agencies and levels of government, to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and even other countries, and international bodies. 1 This i…
Globalisation has left Commonwealth Caribbean Small States Behind
‘The tide of globalisation has yet to lift all boats. For too many, the path to prosperity has proven elusive’. That was the profound observation of United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterr
Caribbean Secession—Disruptive but not Definitive
Throughout history, communities which have been separated by religion, ethnicity and distance (most especially water), have experienced secessionist movements. Such movements are now current in rel
The Commonwealth and the international legal order
This article, based on a slightly edited transcript of a lecture delivered by the author at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), London on 7 March 2022, offers a wide-ranging survey of the Commonwealth’s contributions to the maintenance of the international legal order against the backdrop of recent developments, including the military action launched by Russia in Ukraine
Practically speaking
Political science (23 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Commonwealth (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Government (linguistics (7 works) · History (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)