DEMOCRACY BY DIPLOMACY

Find out how Caribbean states play a larger role in international politics and diplomacy than their size would seem to suggest.

By Ambassador Lionel Hurst

In this 250-page treatise, a former Ambassador from the Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda shares a superb narrative of the recent history of the diplomatic achievements of the English-speaking Caribbean.

 The inter-state relations between the Caribbean states and the United States provides the major backdrop to this well-written book. Having served as Ambassador to the United Nations, to the Organization of American States, and to the USA for fifteen cumulative years, Ambassador Lionel Hurst brings a rich knowledge of the relations of small island-states to their most powerful neighbor. It is worth the time and will fill in many gaps in the knowledge of most readers about a region committed to a tradition of democratic government.

The former Caribbean diplomat has gone a step further in challenging those labels, especially as the relate to Black people in the area. In his new book Democracy by Diplomacy Lionel Hurst, a former Antigua and Barbuda Ambassador to the United Nations, argues that "though in appearance the transplanted person looks every inch an African, these modern persons have been re-engineered to behave more like the people who enslaved them."