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The View from EuropeThe new dimensions of regional security
David JessopApril 23, 2017It is no secret that governments around the world regularly practice their response to security threats. The objective is to prepare for eventualities that those concerned hope will never occur, ...
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The View from EuropeCuba's cautious transition to a new generation
David JessopApril 14, 2017In just under a year's time, if President Castro keeps to his previously announced timetable, he will step down and cease to lead Cuba's Council of State and Council of ...
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The View from EuropeResponding to the coming trade disorder
David JessopMarch 14, 2017A few days ago, an astute observer of the US political scene told me: "Watch what the new administration and Congress does, not what the President tweets". "That is the ...
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The View from EuropeHas Caribbean sugar a future?
David JessopMarch 7, 2017Unless the sugar industry in CARICOM can develop in the coming months a co-ordinated and concerted plan of action, it is quite possible that in a few years' time there ...
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The View from EuropeThe message in President Trump's Mexico policy
David JessopJan. 29, 2017One of the few issues about which the new President of the United States has been consistent, is his approach towards Mexico.
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The View from EuropeThe message in President Trump's Mexico policy
David JessopJan. 20, 2017One of the few issues about which the new President of the United States has been consistent, is his approach towards Mexico.
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The View from EuropeThe real challenge of citizenship programmes
David JessopJan. 16, 2017A few days into the New Year, St Lucia's Prime Minister, Allen Chastanet, suggested that all five of the Eastern Caribbean nations that sell Citizenship by Investment (CBI) should develop ...
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The View from EuropeAction needed to guide US regional priorities
David JessopDec. 18, 2016On December 13, the US Congress sent to President Obama The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 for signature into law.
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The View from EuropeChina: a tourism opportunity for the Caribbean?
David JessopDec. 9, 2016At the end of last month, China published a detailed 16-page document, 'China's Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean', which sets out a new approach to relations between ...
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The View from EuropeNew uncertainties ahead for Cuba
David JessopDec. 4, 2016On November 28, the US President-elect, Donald Trump said that 'if Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as ...
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The View from EuropeThe trajectory of history is changing
David JessopNov. 26, 2016Being able to identify the policy changes that will transform the future is normally far from easy. Arguably, however, in the week past, the remarks of two world leaders make ...
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The View from Europe
The region is ill-prepared for President Trump
David JessopNov. 11, 2016Dispossessed by economic globalisation, faced with growing economic inequality, and wanting change, the people of the United States have elected Donald Trump to be their President. In doing so, they ...
