Jacqueline Braveboy Wagner- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jacqueline Braveboy Wagner
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Professor Emeritus at The Graduate Center, CUNY
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L’uso del termine. L’evoluzione istituzionale della denominazione Sud globale. Sud globale: alcune critiche. Obiettivi comuni
del Sud globale. Verso un mondo multipolare
Translation: Article discusses the use of the term, the institutional evolution of "Global South," some critiques, common objectives of the global South, and the possible emergence...
As countries formerly deemed to be “developing” and relatively powerless begin to exert more influence in global arenas, fresh attention is being paid by Western policymakers as well as scholars to the possibility of the creation of a multipolar system that is shaping up to be a highly diverse one. To assess whether this incipient multipolarity can...
The nations of the global south (GS) came to independence in a hierarchical world dominated by larger, more powerful nations and they have been seeking since then to create a system of global governance that is more conducive to their needs. The chapter describes the contributions they have made to expanding and diversifying the Western-based archi...
New edition of 2016 book on the diplomatic strategies of rising nations in the Global South. All chapters updated. Entirely new chapters on Colombia, Kenya, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. Palgrave-Macmillan 2024.
In the second decade of the twenty-first century, a multipolar global system, which would include a diverse set of countries, seems within reach, after many decades of anticipation by the states known collectively as the global south. In the forefront of the “rise of rest” has been the remarkable growth and international projection of China which h...
The contributions in this book have focused on the strategies being employed by global south countries deemed to be striving to achieve or sustain influence and leadership in their regions and beyond. The countries selected have ranged from those with global ambitions to regional and subregional leaders, high income to low, and democracies to quasi...
Although Brazil is by any standard a regional power in Latin America, it has struggled in the twenty-first century to convert regional strength into significant global power, partly due to domestic political changes that have raised concerns about the stability of its foreign policy stances. Between 2003 and 2010, Brazil appeared to be heading for...
Since the revolution in 1959, Cuba has been exceptionally active internationally, punching above its weight vis-à-vis its small size and limited resources. Even as it grew dependent on the Soviet Union for survival, it offered military and technical assistance to revolutionaries and progressives in its region and as far away as Africa. It has been...
The nations of the global south (GS) came to independence in a hierarchical world dominated by larger, more powerful nations and they have been seeking since then to create a system of global governance that is more conducive to their needs. The chapter describes the contributions they have made to expanding and diversifying the Western-based archi...
Global South Challenge to Universal Values
Explaining Caribbean foreign policy with reference to the literature
This introductory contribution examines the ‘Global South’ as a meta category in the study of world politics. Against the backdrop of a steep rise in references to the ‘Global South’ across academic publications, we ask whether and how the North–South binary in general, and the ‘(Global) South’ in particular, can be put to use analytically. Buildin...
Completely revised article on Foreign Policy theories as they apply to the wider Caribbean.
While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner shows how and why such arrangements are critical in the South's efforts to call the international community's attention to their concerns and to resolve their special problems. Focusing on a range...
Keynote Address, ABRI, Perspectives on Power in a Changing World
Since the end of the Cold War, Caribbean countries (CARICOM in particular) have been trying to redefine their foreign policies among rapid world changes. The result, however, has been a lack of long term planning, ad-hoc-ism, and improvisation in their diplomacy. The chapter explores these changes since the high point of CARICOM diplomacy in the 19...
Keynote. Prepared for presentation at "The 'global South' in the 21st century: Rhetoric, political realities and cooperation perspectives." Thursday 14th June 2018
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)/the German Institute for International and Security Affairs
The relationship between the world’s largest power and the small nations of the Caribbean has been and remains rich and varied. The history of political and security collaboration is long, if not untroubled: the United States is the Caribbean’s predominant trade and investment partner, and U.S. culture is as pervasive in the region as are U.S. good...
In this exploratory contribution focusing on offering local (including regional) perspectives on IR, I have selected the Caribbean, a “region” consisting of numerous small island as well as (in its central construction) a few continental states, which on occasion has been injected into global conflict but in general is perceived as relatively stabl...
"This fantastic collection is unique in Illustrating the depth of distinctive diplomatic strategies practised by a range of states, both large and small, across the full breath of the Global South ... a convincing corrective to prevailing accounts that privilege the concerns of Western powers and scholarship.... " Matthew Bishop, Senior Lecturer, U...
The contributions in this book have focused on the strategies being employed by global south countries that are striving to achieve or sustain influence and leadership in their regions and beyond. The countries selected have ranged from large to medium to small-sized states, high income to low, advanced industrializing to agricultural nations, and...
The overall purpose of this chapter is to present the diplomatic strategies that have allowed Brazil to be recognized as a leading nation in the twenty-first century. Generally, the chapter analyzes the country’s use of soft power (Nye, J.S. 2004. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs; Nye, J.S. 2006. Think Ag...
Since the end of the Cold War, the international system has moved from the unipolar “moment” dominated by the USA to a far more multipolar structure. A major aspect of this is the so-called “rise of the rest,” highlighting the increasing economic strength and deeper involvement of countries other than the traditional “great powers” in global affair...
Just the mention of “G77” and “NAM” today tends to provoke a somewhat negative reaction from many non-global south scholars and even some global south analysts (for example Indian analysts who propose that India abandon nonalignment.) Certainly many northern diplomats would like to see the disintegration of these groups. They are thought to be cont...
In an era when so much of IR scholarship is focused on normative approaches, it seems at first glance a bit dated to be talking about geopolitics. For surely relations among nations now transcend geographical limitations, given the advance of technology. Indeed, for scholars of areas such as the Caribbean, the notion of geopolitics brings to mind n...
In an era when so much of IR scholarship is focused on normative approaches, it seems at first glance a bit dated to be talking about geopolitics. For surely relations among nations now transcend geographical limitations, given the advance of technology. Indeed, for scholars of areas such as the Caribbean, the notion of geopolitics brings to mind n...
The idea that a microstate such as Trinidad and Tobago can possess and use ‘power,’ a trait generally associated with a high level of military and economic capability, would appear to a traditional realist to be absurd. This is largely because power is still seen as exercised at the global systemic level or at regional levels that are globally sign...
Since the end of the Cold War, a majority of nations have reassessed their foreign policy directions and strategies, and have restructured their foreign services to meet today’s challenges. This chapter summarises these challenges and their effects on the content and conduct of diplomacy in the small Caribbean Community (CARICOM) states, focusing p...
In view of the security and economic issues that they have faced, what strategies and linkages have Caricom nations opted for over time? This is the questions addressed in this chapter.
Like all countries, Caricom states want and need for both political and economic reasons to form and deepen the relationships that make them global citizens. Small as they are, these states maintain a long list of diplomatic friendships, with more than one hundred countries in the case of the larger territories. Certain patterns in the establishmen...
Given their small size and small armies (where they exist), the Caricom states—excluding the unique case of Haiti, which, as discussed in the last chapter, early in its history occupied the Dominican Republic—have not had the capacity to engage, and do not desire to engage, in external military adventurism. The gains to be had from any such adventu...
In the last decade, both diplomats and scholars have spent a significant amount of time assessing the changes in foreign policy wrought by the changed global environment. (In this book, “foreign policy” refers to the purposive—that is, official and intentional—actions and behavior of states targeted toward external state as well as nonstate actors....
Caricom policy making, including foreign policy making, has traditionally carried a strong executive stamp. However, the need for skilled foreign policy bureaucrats and for an efficiently managed diplomatic machinery has grown as Caricom countries have become more aware of and embroiled in the increasingly complex international environment. In earl...
One may well ask, why study the international activity of fourteen Caribbean states that are today rather marginal in global security and economic affairs? But these are the same states that once were central to the world economy because of one product, sugar, and also came to occupy a key place in U.S. and global policy during the cold war. Geogra...
Foreign economic policy has assumed a level of importance in the 2000s comparable to the position long held by military and political policy. For the global south, the world attention to economics should have come as a relief inasmuch as these nations’ primary goal has normally been economic development, with foreign policies keyed to achieving thi...
In any society, decisions are made within an environment that is constrained by both international and domestic factors. Decision makers who are less constrained domestically are able to make external policy more freely—although in certain circumstances they may wish to make it appear otherwise—whereas those who are more constrained will need to st...
Dependence and size does not fully explain the activities of small states. Perceptions matter as well as state-level characteristics.
One of the first books of a wave of studies rethinking IR approaches in the 2000s, specifically foreign policy approaches.
Caribbean perspectives on a variety of cultural, social and economic issues at the turn of the century (end of the 20th)
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....
First comprehensive book on Caribbean objectives, decision making environment, management of foreign policy
The expiration in 1982 of the Protocol of Port-of-Spain reheated a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that had been frozen since 1970. Almost at once, Venezuelan ultranationalists asserted the need to recover by force the Essequibo region of Guyana which Venezuela had long claimed. While rejecting force as a solution, the Venezuelan govern...
Summary of events in the Venezuela-Guyana dispute from the perspective of history through the 1980s.
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