In Search of a Path: an Analysis of the Foreign Policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991 (Caribbean Series, No. 27)

The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, and particularly when it comes to Suriname. How did the young Republic deal with its dependency on the Netherlands for development aid after 1975? Was Paramaribo following a certain foreign policy strategy or did it merely react towards internal and external events? What were the decision making processes in defining the foreign policy course and who was involved in these processes? And why was a proposal discussed to hand back the right of an independent foreign and defence policy to a Dutch Commonwealth government in the early 1990s?