Dr. Suzette A. Haughton is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Security Studies at the Department of Government, the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.  She holds a PhD in Security Studies from the Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in International Relations from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

Contact Information:  Room 26, Department of Government, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica W.I.

Email: suzette.haughton@uwimona.edu.jm

Phone numbers: 1-876-970-6358 (direct office line); 1-876-977-5935 (main office)

Research Interests

• Security threats affecting nation-states

• Drug trafficking

• Border security

• Border disputes

• Theories of security

• Globalisation

Teaching

• Theories and concepts in Global Security

• International Security Issues

• Principles of Public International Law

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Haughton, Suzette A (2017) Border Security and Cooperative Initiatives to Counter Illicit Drug

Trafficking: The Case of Jamaica and the USA in Maurice Dawson etal eds, Developing Next Generation Countermeasures for Homeland Security Threat Prevention, IGI Global, USA pp. 104-120.

Haughton, Suzette A (2016) Economic Globalisation and the transnational crime of drug

trafficking and lottery scamming: Evidence from Jamaica in Nikolaos Karagiannis and Debbie Mohammed  Volume II, eds, The Modern Caribbean Economy: Economic Development and Public Policy Challenges, Business Expert Press, USA pp. 115-131.

Haughton, Suzette A (2015) La política de drogras en Jamaica in Beatriz Caiuby Labate y Thiago

Rodrigues eds. Drogras, política y sociedad en América Latina y el Caribe, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico, pp. 391-412.

Haughton, Suzette A (2015) Colombia-Jamaica-Nicaragua-United States: Bajo Nuevo Bank (Petrel Islands) and Serranilla Bank, In Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 Functional Disputes, ABC-CLIO, LLC, pp. 786-794.

Haughton, Suzette A (2015) Dominica-Venezuela: Isla Aves/Bird Island, In Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly Border Disputes: A Global Encyclopedia, Vol. 3 Functional Disputes, ABC-CLIO, LLC, pp. 795-803.

Haughton, Suzette A (2015) Attitudes in a Urban Community Toward Persons who Misuse Drugs In Jamaica. International Research Capacity Building Programme for Health Related Professionals to Study the Drug Phenomenon in Latin America and the Caribbean, Organisation of American States and Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto.

Haughton, Suzette A (2014) The 2009 Jamaica-USA Extradition Affair: A Securitized Response to

Jamaica’s Drug Problem, Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 2, No. 3, September, pp. 15-41.

Haughton, Suzette A (2011) Drugged Out: Globalisation and Jamaica’s Resilience to Drug

Trafficking, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland: USA and Plymouth: United Kingdom, September, 1-256.

Haughton, Suzette A (2011) Critical Pedagogy and the University of the West Indies

Foundation Course: Law, Governance, Economy and Society, The UWI Quality Education

Forum, No. 17, January, pp. 1-26.

Haughton, Suzette A and Knight F (2011) Jamaica’s Strategic Culture, Florida International

University, Applied Research Centre and Latin American and Caribbean Center, August, pp. 1-47.

Haughton, Suzette A (2009) The US-Caribbean Border: An important security border in the 21

century, The Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3,  pp. 1-20.



Haughton, Suzette A (2008) Bilateral Diplomacy:  Re-thinking the Jamaica-United States

Shiprider Agreement”, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Vol. 3, No. 3, October, pp. 253-276.



Haughton, Suzette A (2007) The Jamaica-Britain Border and Drug Trafficking, The Round Table

The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Issue 390, June, pp.279-303.