Challenged Sovereignty

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith is a Fellow of the Caribbean Policy Consortium and of Global Americans and a Senior Associate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His books include Strategy and Security in the Caribbean, The Quest for Security in the Caribbean, Drugs and Security in the Caribbean,The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean, and Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror.

Preface and Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Part I. Contexts and Concepts 1 Probing Problems Without Passports Part II. Problems Without Passports 3 The Drama of Drugs 4 The Crucible of Crime 5 The Trauma of Terror and Cyber Part III. Controversial Cases 6 Security and Sovereignty Under Siege 7 Dynamics of Geonarcotics and Geopolitics Part IV. Conclusion: Crucial Contemplation 8 Pondering Challenged Sovereignty Appendix: Extradition Treaty between Jamaica and the United States Notes> Bibliography Index

"This masterpiece of description and critical analysis by renowned security scholar, Ivelaw Griffith exposes the difficulty of governing in our complex interdependent, interconnected, and multicentric world. Griffith's excellent take on Challenged Sovereignty is a tour de force of the impact of problems without passports (PWPs) that skillfully blends his vast empirical knowledge of the concatenated nature of security phenomena--drugs, crimes, terrorism, and cybersecurity--with an evolving conceptual understanding of how small, subordinate and subaltern states, like those in the Caribbean, are negatively impacted by the existential threats that are the result of glocalization. This book owes its intellectual tradition to Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery (1944) and its conceptual origins to Kofi Annan's notion of 'problems without passports.' It reminds us that in our increasingly intermestic world, in which the boundary lines that separate the local from the global are so blurred, sovereignty is no longer sacrosanct if ever it was." --W. Andy Knight, coeditor of Remapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making "Erudite and scholarly as always, and drawing from his extensive expertise on the multiple dimensions of Caribbean security, Ivelaw Griffith puts his sharp analytical mind to delivering a significant intervention in the ongoing debates about Caribbean sovereignty, which have now entered a phase that recognizes, articulates and emphasizes decolonial impulses and aspirations. Considering that security is a foundation of sovereignty, Griffith's focus on drugs, crime, terrorism, and cyber threats offers an appropriate and comprehensive approach to probing the current state of affairs in a region that already was compromised through various historical handicaps by virtue of its exploitative colonial past. As the author successfully argues, widely prevalent vulnerability conditions and aggravating 'problems without passports' have evolved into a more generalized Challenged sovereignty for states in the Caribbean region-a condition which Norman Girvan had quippingly characterized from an economic perspective as 'In-dependence.' Griffith's latest book is undoubtedly yet another valuable addition from his pen to the existing literature on these issues." --Holger Henke, coeditor of New Political Culture in the Caribbean