No Island is an Island: Selected Speeches of Sir Shridath RamphalMacmillan Education, 2000 - 180 pages Many of the speeches in this volume, delivered between the late 1980s and the late 1990s, reflect Sir Shridath Ramphal's concern for Caribbean unity, a concern which dates back to the short-lived Federation of the West Indies (1958-62). Those related to his role as Chair of the West Indian Commission provide an incisive commentary on both the urgent need for greater regional integration and the problems which lie in the way. But Ramphal is always aware of the Caribbean's position as part of a wider world, and brings a global perspective to his analysis of environmental and economic issues which affect all countries, but particularly those of the developing world, and to his discussion of the special problems of the small and vulnerable states of the Caribbean in a world increasingly dominated by large trading blocs.; |
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... less creedal , less assertive , less defining , even less hallowed . Sovereignty , self - determination , even non - intervention have had to yield some of their innocence . We still speak of them in the language of orthodoxy , but we ...
... less creedal , less assertive , less defining , even less hallowed . Sovereignty , self - determination , even non - intervention have had to yield some of their innocence . We still speak of them in the language of orthodoxy , but we ...
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... less powerful states in particular have seen in these principles their main defence against more powerful , predatory countries , and they have looked to the world community to uphold these norms . And so it should . But the adapting of ...
... less powerful states in particular have seen in these principles their main defence against more powerful , predatory countries , and they have looked to the world community to uphold these norms . And so it should . But the adapting of ...
Page 129
... less admirable aspect of the economic changes of this century : the relentless growth in the number of those who do not enjoy freedom from want – the number of the very poor . Though the global economy has expanded five - fold over the ...
... less admirable aspect of the economic changes of this century : the relentless growth in the number of those who do not enjoy freedom from want – the number of the very poor . Though the global economy has expanded five - fold over the ...
Contents
No Island is an Island | 14 |
European unity Caribbean Challenges | 42 |
The Universe requires an eternity | 52 |
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