An Interview with Vaughan Lewis

Abstract

Vaughan Lewis is Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies and former Prime Minister of St Lucia. In a distinguished career as a Caribbean intellectual and policymaker, he served as the first Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (1982-1995), and in various positions within government in St Lucia. As an academic, he published many monographs and articles on a wide range of issues related to Caribbean politics and international relations, small states, regionalism and regional integration, and he made a number of key contributions to the development of IR more broadly.