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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean face extreme weather events alongside persistent security challenges, including organised crime, migration and financial vulnerability. Weather Politics and Security in the Caribbean examines these dynamics, bringing together scholarship from across the Caribbean and the West to explore how weather, politics and security intersect. It introduces weather politics as a lens for understanding the political consequences of extreme weather and its interaction with broader processes of climate change, while examining how political choices shape vulnerability and resilience.
Contributors address a range of pressing issues, including the political consequences of extreme weather, climate justice, green transitions, cybersecurity, migration, maritime security, organised crime and post-disaster policing. The volume connects debates that are often considered separately and brings diverse Caribbean and international perspectives into conversation. It offers new perspectives for scholars, policymakers and practitioners seeking to understand how climate-related events are reshaping political and security landscapes.
Nicholas Michelsen, Professor of International Relations, King’s College London.
Suzette A. Haughton, Professor of Security and International Relations, Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Carlos Zepeda, Research Associate in the Department of War Studies, School of Security Studies, King’s College London.
Cush Sewell Lewis, PhD candidate and Research Associate in the Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.
Foreword - Arlene Laing
Introduction - Nicholas Michelsen, Suzette A. Haughton, Carlos Zepeda and Cush Sewell Lewis
Part I: The Politics of Weather in the Caribbean and Global Politics
1. Understanding Weather Politics and Security in the Caribbean - Nicholas Michelsen, Suzette Haughton, Carlos Zepeda and Cush Sewell Lewis
2. Caribbean Advocacy in Global Climate-Security Dialogues - Sherry Tross
3. On Not Choosing Between People and Planet: Mia Mottley and the Climate Crisis Change Litigation - Anna Kasafi Perkins
4. Climate Justice and Security: Caribbean States’ Strategies in the face of Climate Change Litigation - Belén Olmos Giupponi
5. Understanding Haiti’s Sovereignty Dilemma in Regional Conceptual Context - Ivelaw Griffith
6. Going Green in SIDS: The Green Economy Transition as a Response to Climate Change - Glenville McLeod
Part II: Postcolonial Weather, Security and Resistance
7. Climate Change, Cybersecurity, and the Politics of Weather: Promises and Perils for the Global South - Ashera Barron and Donavan Johnson
8. Natural Disasters, Policing and Security: The Impacts of Hurricane Flora on Policing and Security in Tobago - Wendell Wallace and April Humphrey
9. From Policy to Protection: Evaluating Weather Politics, Maritime Security, and Climate Resilience in the Caribbean - Andrea Clayton and Hillary Briffa
10. Vulnerability, Security and Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change in Caribbean Small Island Developing States - Natalie Dietrich-Jones and Clarence Henry
11. Weather Politics in the Caribbean: (Post)Colonial Fantasies of Repair - David Chandler
Conclusion - Nicholas Michelsen, Suzette A. Haughton, Carlos Zepeda and Cush Sewell Lewis