The Third Border Initiative (TBI) is an area of policy concerning

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and

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region. The phrase was especially made popular by the administration of US president

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. The Third Border Initiative was a reference to the Caribbean region's adjacent placement to the United States. The policy is the ideology that behind

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and

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the Caribbean region is a sea-based border of the United States.

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The initiative also builds upon the founding of the Caribbean/United States -

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(1997). An agreement which is sometimes called the "Bridgetown Accord". This agreement is also complemented with other agreements for Maritime co-operation between the United States and countries of the Caribbean region. These other agreements include: the ''Maritime Counter-Narcotics Co-operation Agreement'' (1996), the ''Maritime Counter-Narcotics ("Shiprider") Agreement'' (1997), and the

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. Many of these agreements were signed between the Clinton Administration of the United States, and the various independent countries of the Caribbean region in May 1997.

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White House: Fact Sheet President's Speech at the Summit of the Americas
- Washington, DC (13 January 2004) * ttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Book&hdAction=lnkpdf&contentId=1775576 Terrorism and security in the caribbean before and after 9/11 Dion E. Phillips
U.S./CARICOM/Dominican Republic Statement on Third Border Initiative
- America. Gov (4 January 2004)
USAID: Caribbean Regional

Caribbean/United States - Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean
- Text document of agreement signed between the United States and Caribbean region at Bridgetown, Barbados on 10 May 1997. Geography of the Caribbean Borders of the United States United States–Caribbean relations Bahamas–United States border Cuba–United States border {{Caribbean-stub

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