The Regional Foreign Policy of Trinidad and Tobago

Historical and Contemporary Aspects

Bibliographic Data

ID4547824
AuthorsJacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner (0000-0001-5135-9564, City College of New York, corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume31
Issue3
Pages37-62
Publication date1989-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165892
OpenAlexW2784168357
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

It is logical to assume that small states focus more attention on the regional, subsystemic or "contiguous" environment (Reid, 1974: 31) than on the broader international system. Given their financial limitations, small states are circumscribed in their ability to influence the international environment but can be effective in the regional context. Even if some small states, by virtue of comparative wealth or ideological commitment, have the capability and inclination to exploit the international environment rather than confine their focus to the region around them, they still find their attention directed, to a large extent, to the immediacy of regional problems and to regional activities that are grounded in social, cultural, political, and economic linkages to the countries nearby. More often than not, economic ties have been formalized in regional integration movements patterned along the lines of the European Community (EC

Context (archaeology) · Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Focus (optics) · Geography · Geopolitics · Ideology · Immediacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Sociology · Virtue · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs

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