The security challenges confronting the Caribbean Region for the remainder of the 1990s will primarily involve regional vulnerability, drugs, instability and the environment. During the 1980s, geopolitics, militarization, intervention and instability were regarded by scholars as the region’s overriding security concerns. Unlike these, however, security issues for the 1990s bring with them a higher degree of complexity, particularly with respect to the possibility of interpreting events and outcomes prior to addressing these challenges.
