Guest Editorial

Author Biographies

• Annita Montoute, Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies

  Annita Montoute is Lecturer in the areas of international organisation, global governance and multilateralism at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. She is the co-author and co-editor of “Changing Cuba-U.S. Relations. Implications for CARICOM States” (2019) and “The ACP Group and the EU Development Partnership: Beyond the North-South Debate” (2017), respectively, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. She has also written on civil society, security and the Caribbean’s external relations. She was Research Fellow at the European Centre for Development Policy Management in Maastricht, Netherlands and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from The University of the West Indies.

• Georgina Chami, Institute of International Relations, The University of the West Indies

  Georgina Chami is a Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (IIR), The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. She is the former Coordinator of the Caribbean Child Rights Observatory Network (CCRON), established in 2014 to monitor and analyse the rights of children within the Caribbean region. Her areas of expertise are diplomacy, peace and security, peacebuilding, and international organisations. She is the recipient of the Central America/Caribbean Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program (2010). She is Coordinator of the Diploma Programme in International Relations, Internship Coordinator, IIR and Faculty Advisor, Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) and UWI STA Model UN Club. She holds a doctoral degree in International Relations from the IIR, St. Augustine Campus.