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Ramcharan’s foreign policy study: more
historical fantasy than scholarly writing

Robin Ramcharan, The National Security of Guyana: A Study in Foreign Policy. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. 376 pages. ISBN-13 978-0 7734-5338-8.

There has been surprisingly little scholarly writing on Guyana’s foreign policy. Only a few books − Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner’s The Carib-bean in World Affairs: The Foreign Policies of the English-Speaking States (1989); Garavini di Turno’s Politica Exterior de Guyana (1988); Georges Fauriol’s Foreign Policy Behaviour of Caribbean States: Guyana, Haiti and Jamaica (1984); Tyrone Ferguson’s To Survive Sensibly or Court Heroic Death: Management of Guyana’s Political Economy, 1965-1985 (1999); and Rashleigh Jackson’s Guyana’s Diplomacy. Reflections of a Former Foreign Minister (2003) − have been of significance over the past twenty-five years.