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TESTIMONIALS

Strategy and Security in the Caribbean

"In Griffith's book, issues of militarization, peace, and security are approached from a Caribbean perspective that is senstive to the interests of regional societies. Its chapters are well researched and generally explore topics and national realities that have been normally neglected in previous studies. This volume should be read by all those concerned with the future of the Caribbean."

Jorge Rodriguez Beruff Institute of Caribbean Studies

University of Puerto Rico

Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege

“Griffith’s is a bold, comprehensive effort. Utilizing a ‘geonarcotics’ framework, which is ideal for the task at hand, he sets out to cover the entire Caribbean. Obviously, he falls short. But in the process he may have produced one of the best works yet on the multiple security implications of drug trafficking for small, dependent states.”

Richard B. Craig, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs

Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean

"This masterpiece of description and critical analysis by renowned security scholar Ivelaw Griffith exposes the difficulty of governing in our complex, interdependent, interconnected, and multicentric world.  Griffith’s excellent take on Challenged Sovereignty is a tour de force of the impact of problems without passports (PWPs) that skillfully blends his vast empirical knowledge... "

W. Andy Knight

 coeditor of Remapping the Americas: Trends in Region-making

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ABOUT IVELAW LLOYD GRIFFITH

 Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith

Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Associate Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith is also a Fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium and Global Americans. He originated the concept of Geonarcotics in the early 1990s as a way to study the complex relationship involving drugs, geography, power, and politics, outlining it first in International Journal, Canada's leading international affairs scholarly magazine. The concept was then applied empirically to study the Caribbean in the 1997 book Drugs and Security in the Caribbean. In 2024, Ivelaw introduced the concept of Challenged Sovereignty, which describes circumstances where the vulnerability of states is worsened by internal or external developments that compromise the ability of their leaders to design and deliver domestic and foreign policy independently.

Bio

Professor Griffith has published widely on Caribbean national security, drugs, and crime issues, including the scholarly books Strategy and Security in the Caribbean (Praeger, 1991), The Quest for Security in the Caribbean (M.E. Sharpe, 1993), Drugs and Security in the Caribbean (Penn State University Press, 1997), Democracy and Human Rights in the Caribbean (Westview Press, 1997), The Political Economy of Drugs in the Caribbean (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000), Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror (Ian Randle Publishers, 2004), Challenged Sovereignty: The Impact of Drugs, Crime, Terrorism, and Cyber Threats in the Caribbean (University of Illinois Press, 2024), Oil and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Petro-Power Basin (Routledge, 2024). His first novel, Sylvie’s Love and Loss also was published in 2024 by Wordeee.

 

Dr. Griffith also has published several dozen articles in reputable scholarly journals, including Security and Defense Studies Review (US), Social and Economic Studies (Caribbean), Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement (US), Naval War College Review (US), Third World Quarterly (UK), Journal of Money Laundering Control (UK), Caribbean Quarterly (Caribbean), Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (UK), University of Miami Law Review (US), Dickinson Journal of International Law (US), Conflict Quarterly (Canada), Mershon International Studies Review (US), The Round Table (UK), Latin American Research Review (US), International Journal (Canada), Joint Force Quarterly (US), and New West Indian Guide (Holland). His research also has appeared in several encyclopedia, including The Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior and Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies. Professor Griffith also has been quoted in dozens of Caribbean and international newspapers, and he has been the guest of several podcasts.

Dr. Griffith is the recipient of the 2015 William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education, named in honor of former US Defense Secretary Dr. William J. Perry—the first person from the Caribbean to receive this honor. As well, in 2017 he was awarded the Cacique Crown of Honor—Guyana’s third highest national honor—for Excellence in International Scholarship and Transformational Education Leadership on the occasion of the country’s 51st Anniversary of Independence. He has served in several academic leadership roles, including as Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, President of Fort Valley State University in Georgia, Provost of Radford University in Virginia and of York College/The City University of New York, and as a Dean at Florida International University. Also, he has testified before the U.S. Congress and served as a consultant to several U.S and international organizations. 

A past president of the Caribbean Studies Association, Dr. Griffith also has been a visiting scholar at military institutes in Canada, Germany, and the United States. He currently serves on the Vestry (governing board) of the Historic St. George’s Episcopal Church in Long Island and is an active member of the Rotary Club of Freeport/Merrick. He and Francille, his partner of four decades, have two adult children and one granddaughter.

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