ABSTRACT
Grenada is smaller than Nicaragua or Cuba, but the pattern of the US response to the revolutionary regimes in each of these countries are similar: beginning with a suspicious but respectful cordiality, moving to a resentful dissociation, and concluding with confrontation. In each case, the United States elicited the opposite of what it wanted with regard to the internal and external character of the revolutionary regime. During the remainder of the Carter administration, the United States expanded development programs for Grenada's neighbours. The British improved the region's police forces, and the United States helped to establish a regional coast guard. The nations of the region developed informal arrangements to help each other in times of emergency. The Reagan administration discarded the lower profile of its predecessor and turned up the stridency in its rhetoric toward Grenada. It intensified its efforts to isolate the regime and ended Carter's support for the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) unless it excluded Grenada.
