National Security Strategy Framework for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

摘要

The primary research question is as follows: Can the principles applied by the United States of America and Great Britain in producing their national security strategies be utilized to develop a national security strategy framework for Trinidad and Tobago. This thesis first reviews the theories and methods that are used to develop a national security strategy, and then examines the theories and methods that were used by two developed nations, the United States and Great Britain, to develop and implement their own national security strategies. Next, the thesis scrutinizes the national security strategies of Jamaica and the Republic of the Philippines to determine if the theories and frames of reference used by the United States and Great Britain to develop and implement their national security strategies are applicable to these two small island developing states similar to Trinidad and Tobago. The thesis then reviews two previous efforts of Trinidad and Tobago to develop a national security strategy that did not succeed, and it compares their methodology to those of the two developed nations and the small island developing states to determine the cause of the nonimplementation of the previous efforts. The study concludes that the United States and Great Britain used accepted theories and frames of reference to develop and implement their national security strategies. Jamaica and the Philippines duplicated this approach to develop and implement their own strategies.