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The security issues which have come into prominence since the September 11 terrorist attack in the USA provide both the starting point and the focus for this comprehensive survey of contemporary security issues in the Caribbean. This volume assesses the impact of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Caribbean states and examines the institutional and operational terrorism response capacity of security agencies in the region. However, understanding security challenge and change in the Caribbean context requires a broad-based multidimensional approach; terrorism for the small, open and vulnerable nation states of the Caribbean region is a real security issue but even more so, is a range of untraditional threats like crime, drug trafficking, territorial disputes, environmental degradation and the rapid spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. How these states adapt policies and practices to adjust to the new regional and global circumstances represent the challenge and the change.

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This 532-page edited book deals with a subject rarely discussed--the threat of terrorism in the Caribbean basin. With 25 different contributors the book has an uneven quality, even though the editor, Griffith (Florida Atlantic Univ.) has attempted to coordinate the essays. Chapter titles run the gamut from crime to drugs, to a call for action against terrorism in the area. One might ask, what terrorism? Thus far the major terrorist act in the area (attested to by at least three contributors) was the bombing of a Cubana de Aviacion airliner in 1976, carried out by Cuban dissidents with ties to the CIA. Although Colombia appears to be included in the Caribbean basin, practically no mention is made of the drawn-out high level of terrorism in that country. This earnest book, although replete with jargon, acronyms, and convoluted phrases, will be of interest to Caribbean scholars who wish to pursue a relatively arcane subject about an area with much greater problems of poverty, unemployment, and lack of natural resources. ^BSumming Up: Optional. Researchers and faculty. E. A. Duff emeritus, Randolph-Macon Woman's College