Ivelaw L Griffith
Biographic Data
| ID | 721336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivelaw L Griffith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivelaw L |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffith |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFITH I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-6668-3932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The crime and challenged sovereignty conundrum in the Caribbean
Sadly, the persistence and spread of crime and violence across the Caribbean region has become the harsh reality of the entire Caribbean. These factors have led the Caribbean area to experience significant trauma in relation to safety and security, as well as economic and social conditions. Crucially, too, the crime and violence have broader implications. This article examines some of the extant conditions and implications, by providing a contemp…
Dramatic outcomes of Guyana’s consequential 2025 elections
Oil and climate change in small states
This article challenges Daniel Yergin's proposition that climate mobilization, and not energy security, is the main driver of contemporary international engagement. I examine the realities of Guyana and Suriname, two small states in the Guyana-Suriname Basin (GSB) that give equal weight to energy security and climate issues. The two have oil reserves that together comprise more than 16 billion barrels. Guyana and Suriname are also in Wet Neighbou…
Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean
The Caribbean, like regions elsewhere, is caught in what has been called democracy's global "Third Wave." In this volume, contributors examine the nature of democratization in the region together with its accessory, human rights. The emphasis is to extend the analysis and debates beyond political democracy and civil and political rights to economic democracy and economic and social rights
Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean
The Quest for Security in the Caribbean
This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers a wealth of information about the history, politics, economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit, not on a selective case-study basis, as is usually done. He assesses Caribbean security within a theoretical framework where four factors are critical: perceptions of the political elites; capabili…
The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean
This volume does four things. Firstly it examines the nexus between the illegal narcotics enterprise as a social phenomenon and political economy as a scholarly issue area. Secondly it explores the re
Political change, democracy, and human rights in Guyana
The annals of Guyana's political history will surely record 1992 as an historic year, for that year was a milestone in the transition from authoritarian politics to democratic politics. Also significant was the emergence from the political wilderness of Cheddie Jagan. Having first entered politics in 1946, Jagan was ousted from power by the British in 1953, and again in 1964, in collusion with the USA, because of his communist orientation. Ironic…
Drugs and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean
(1996). Drugs and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 42, For a Caribbean Criminology. Guest Editor: Maureen Cain, pp. 72-86
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Caribbean Security
During the 1980s, the major security themes that Caribbean scholars studied were geopolitics, militarization, intervention, and instability. The interface between domestic and international politics led to linkages among some of these themes and their domestic, regional, and international dimensions. For example, the militarization of Grenada in the 1980s was predicated on the need to defend the Grenadian revolution against foreign intervention a…
Drugs and democracy in the Caribbean
Drugs and world politics
(1994). Drugs and world politics: The Caribbean dimension. The Round Table: Vol. 83, No. 332, pp. 419-431
Drugs and security in the commonwealth Caribbean
When the Third World Matters
From Cold War Geopolitics to Post-Cold War Geonarcotics
portend, most are nevertheless convinced that this new order brings new challenges and opportunities, new threats and countermeasures, and structural and functional alterations at the regional and international levels that require new conceptual and theoretical explorations. Geoffrey Kemp rightly suggests that geopolitics a longstanding component of Cold War international political analysis while not dead, will have to share the spotlight with ot…
The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean
(1992). The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean. The Round Table: Vol. 81, No. 324, pp. 465-475
The Military and the Politics of Change in Guyana
The death of forbes burnham in August 1985 and the passing of power to Hugh Desmond Hoyte have produced dramatic changes in Guyana, South America's only English-speaking republic. Some of these have involved: (1) privatization of the public sector, (2) abolition of overseas voting, (3) negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), (4) rapprochement with the United States, plus (5) an agreement that observers - including former Presiden…
From Cold War Geopolitics to Post-Cold War Geonarcotics
portend, most are nevertheless convinced that this new order brings new challenges and opportunities, new threats and countermeasures, and structural and functional alterations at the regional and international levels that require new conceptual and theoretical explorations. Geoffrey Kemp rightly suggests that geopolitics a longstanding component of Cold War international political analysis while not dead, will have to share the spotlight with ot…
Political change, democracy, and human rights in Guyana
The annals of Guyana's political history will surely record 1992 as an historic year, for that year was a milestone in the transition from authoritarian politics to democratic politics. Also significant was the emergence from the political wilderness of Cheddie Jagan. Having first entered politics in 1946, Jagan was ousted from power by the British in 1953, and again in 1964, in collusion with the USA, because of his communist orientation. Ironic…
Drugs and democracy in the Caribbean
Drugs and security in the commonwealth Caribbean
The Military and the Politics of Change in Guyana
The death of forbes burnham in August 1985 and the passing of power to Hugh Desmond Hoyte have produced dramatic changes in Guyana, South America's only English-speaking republic. Some of these have involved: (1) privatization of the public sector, (2) abolition of overseas voting, (3) negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), (4) rapprochement with the United States, plus (5) an agreement that observers - including former Presiden…
The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean
(1992). The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean. The Round Table: Vol. 81, No. 324, pp. 465-475
When the Third World Matters
The Military and the Politics of Change in Guyana
The death of forbes burnham in August 1985 and the passing of power to Hugh Desmond Hoyte have produced dramatic changes in Guyana, South America's only English-speaking republic. Some of these have involved: (1) privatization of the public sector, (2) abolition of overseas voting, (3) negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), (4) rapprochement with the United States, plus (5) an agreement that observers - including former Presiden…
The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean
(1992). The RSS—a decade of collective security in the Caribbean. The Round Table: Vol. 81, No. 324, pp. 465-475
Drugs and security in the commonwealth Caribbean
When the Third World Matters
From Cold War Geopolitics to Post-Cold War Geonarcotics
portend, most are nevertheless convinced that this new order brings new challenges and opportunities, new threats and countermeasures, and structural and functional alterations at the regional and international levels that require new conceptual and theoretical explorations. Geoffrey Kemp rightly suggests that geopolitics a longstanding component of Cold War international political analysis while not dead, will have to share the spotlight with ot…
Drugs and world politics
(1994). Drugs and world politics: The Caribbean dimension. The Round Table: Vol. 83, No. 332, pp. 419-431
Caribbean Security
During the 1980s, the major security themes that Caribbean scholars studied were geopolitics, militarization, intervention, and instability. The interface between domestic and international politics led to linkages among some of these themes and their domestic, regional, and international dimensions. For example, the militarization of Grenada in the 1980s was predicated on the need to defend the Grenadian revolution against foreign intervention a…
Drugs and democracy in the Caribbean
Drugs and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean
(1996). Drugs and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 42, For a Caribbean Criminology. Guest Editor: Maureen Cain, pp. 72-86
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Political change, democracy, and human rights in Guyana
The annals of Guyana's political history will surely record 1992 as an historic year, for that year was a milestone in the transition from authoritarian politics to democratic politics. Also significant was the emergence from the political wilderness of Cheddie Jagan. Having first entered politics in 1946, Jagan was ousted from power by the British in 1953, and again in 1964, in collusion with the USA, because of his communist orientation. Ironic…
The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean
This volume does four things. Firstly it examines the nexus between the illegal narcotics enterprise as a social phenomenon and political economy as a scholarly issue area. Secondly it explores the re
The Quest for Security in the Caribbean
This comprehensive work on security in the English-speaking Caribbean, offers a wealth of information about the history, politics, economics and geography of the entire region. The author examines security problems in the region as a geopolitical unit, not on a selective case-study basis, as is usually done. He assesses Caribbean security within a theoretical framework where four factors are critical: perceptions of the political elites; capabili…
Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean
The Caribbean, like regions elsewhere, is caught in what has been called democracy's global "Third Wave." In this volume, contributors examine the nature of democratization in the region together with its accessory, human rights. The emphasis is to extend the analysis and debates beyond political democracy and civil and political rights to economic democracy and economic and social rights
Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean
Oil and climate change in small states
This article challenges Daniel Yergin's proposition that climate mobilization, and not energy security, is the main driver of contemporary international engagement. I examine the realities of Guyana and Suriname, two small states in the Guyana-Suriname Basin (GSB) that give equal weight to energy security and climate issues. The two have oil reserves that together comprise more than 16 billion barrels. Guyana and Suriname are also in Wet Neighbou…
Dramatic outcomes of Guyana’s consequential 2025 elections
The crime and challenged sovereignty conundrum in the Caribbean
Sadly, the persistence and spread of crime and violence across the Caribbean region has become the harsh reality of the entire Caribbean. These factors have led the Caribbean area to experience significant trauma in relation to safety and security, as well as economic and social conditions. Crucially, too, the crime and violence have broader implications. This article examines some of the extant conditions and implications, by providing a contemp…
Political science (15 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (5 works) · Geography (4 works)