ABSTRACT
Jimmy Carter world order policy was given coherence by the concepts of complexity and change. The Carter administration's early Caribbean initiative certainly reflected its world order instincts. In the economic realm the Carter administration helped launch the Caribbean Group for Co-operation in Economic Development, a consortium of some thirty donor and recipient nations under World Bank auspices and including eleven international and regional organizations. In early 1980 Zbigniew Brzezinski, explicitly invoking the Truman Doctrine as a model, persuaded Carter to issue his own doctrine for the Gulf. The rhetoric of world order politics had from the beginning only partly submerged differences among Carter's advisers, and by 1978 they threatened to paralyze United States (US) foreign policy. Frank V. Ortiz assured Maurice Bishop that the US Neutrality Act guaranteed that Eric Matthew Gairy could not invade Grenada from the US, provided evidence to show that Gairy was in San Diego, and asked Bishop to make the information public.
