The Diversification of Committee Systems in Parliaments of Small States: A Study of Trinidad and Tobago and Dominica

2019 ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
Maukesh Basdeo
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Small States

The Regional Foreign Policy of Trinidad and Tobago: Historical and Contemporary Aspects

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
European Community ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
International System ◽  
Small States ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
Regional Problems

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).

Caribbean Small States - Challenges of High Debt and Low Growth

Policy Papers ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Capacity Constraints ◽  
Small States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Main Paper

This paper presents background on Caribbean small states as context for the main paper, “Macroeconomic Issues in Small States and Implications for Fund Engagement.” It draws on recent analytical work presented at a conference for policy makers in September 2012, in Trinidad and Tobago. Caribbean small states, while sharing many features of other small states (size-related macroeconomic vulnerabilities, lack of economies of scale, and capacity constraints) have specific characteristics which merit attention

Audiology in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Jenefer E. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago

From Trinidad and Tobago to the World: Determining the role of Calypso in a new Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Malek Abdel-Shehid
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
West African ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
New Era ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
Cultural Sovereignty ◽  
Caribbean Culture ◽  
Musical Cultures

Calypso is a popular Caribbean musical genre that originated in the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. The genre was developed primarily by enslaved West Africans brought to the region via the transatlantic slave trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although West-African Kaiso music was a major influence, the genre has also been shaped by other African genres, and by Indian, British, French, and Spanish musical cultures. Emerging in the early twentieth century, Calypso became a tool of resistance by Afro-Caribbean working-class Trinbagonians. Calypso flourished in Trinidad due to a combination of factors—namely, the migration of Afro-Caribbean people from across the region in search of upward social mobility. These people sought to expose the injustices perpetrated by a foreign European and a domestic elite against labourers in industries such as petroleum extraction. The genre is heavily anti-colonial, anti-imperial, and anti-elitist, and it advocated for regional integration. Although this did not occur immediately, Calypsonians sought to establish unity across the region regardless of race, nationality, and class through their songwriting and performing. Today, Calypso remains a unifying force and an important part of Caribbean culture. Considering Calypso's history and purpose, as well as its ever-changing creators and audiences, this essay will demonstrate that the goal of regional integration is not possible without cultural sovereignty.

Nuclearization of Small States and World Order: The Case of Korea

Asian Survey ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1134-1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-sun Ha
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Small States
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