Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin
Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin

Author: Jean Grugel

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1349239755

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This wide ranging thematic and comparative text analyses the origins and nature of the developmental and political crises of the region and the reasons for their recent intensification. It covers all the Central American states and the largest Caribbean island territories - Jamaica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Haiti and Puerto Rico - as well as Panama and Grenada, assessing their common experiences as small economies living in the shadow of the United States but also highlighting key differences.

Development, Political, and Economic Difficulties in the Caribbean
Development, Political, and Economic Difficulties in the Caribbean

Author: Ann Marie Bissessar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-01-23

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 3030029948

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This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies. It is done in the context of political and economic difficulties that these countries have faced since the 2007-2008 economic crash and how successful they have been in moving their economies in a different direction. The contributors use very distinct levels of analysis in order to provide a nuanced view of diversification efforts in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Cuba, the French Antilles, and the Dutch Antilles. The book will appeal to academic researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and everyone who is interested in the politics and development of the Caribbean region.

Modern Caribbean Politics
Modern Caribbean Politics

Author: Anthony Payne

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1993-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780801844355

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A successor volume to the editors' Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Manchester U. Press, 1984), this volume reviews political and economic developments of the 1980s not just in the Commonwealth Caribbean but in the whole of the Caribbean region, in original analyses by specialist scholars in the field of Caribbean studies. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Choices and Change
Choices and Change

Author: Nancy Birdsall

Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1886938075

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Fourteen essays by experienced political leaders, researchers and scholars examine the political economy and international relations of the Caribbean. Strategies for sustainable development include proposals to link productive structures among private sectors and increase institutional flexibility.

Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean
Crisis and Promise in the Caribbean

Author: Winston Dookeran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-09

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317157753

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The Caribbean is made up of a complex, enigmatic region, characterised by great disparities in size, population, geography, history, language, religion, race and politics. This is a region in which harmony and discord work in tandem, trying to link economic logic with political logic. This book is a useful tool not only for those specialists and students of regionalism but for all those putting their hands to the task of nation-building and those interested in the development processes of small states and economies. At the same time, this book is a comprehensive historical record especially highlighting hindrances to development in this region. This study raises two important issues: the ’political imperative of convergence’ and the need for ’appropriate correcting mechanisms’ that align the needs of the local with the regional. It is a volume that underlines the need for a change in strategy and makes proposals as to how to go about making those changes.

Globalization and Neoliberalism
Globalization and Neoliberalism

Author: Thomas Klak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 058508078X

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How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries? What is the status of neoliberal development policy in the Caribbean, where the rewards for belt tightening and economic opening have been slow in coming? How have Caribbean policymakers and citizens responded to and resisted the pressures to conform to the new rules of the global economy? By examining these questions through the lens of political economy, this volume explores the interaction among development, trade, foreign policy, the environment, tourism, gender relations, and migration. With its global implications, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars from all disciplines who are concerned with the impact of development and globalization.

Conflict, Peace and Development in the Caribbean
Conflict, Peace and Development in the Caribbean

Author: Jorge Rodriguez Beruff

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1991-06-18

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 134911877X

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One in a series on global political economy, aiming to provide overviews and case studies of states and sectors in the international division of labour. The studies in this volume focus on the regional case of the Caribbean, addressing security, diplomacy, hegemony and development.

The International Crisis in the Caribbean
The International Crisis in the Caribbean

Author: Anthony Payne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-06

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1000535304

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This book, first published in 1984, presents a comprehensive survey of the forces of change that operate in the Caribbean, an area of political instability at the time. It examines the internal politics of the different countries and considers the roles of the United States, Cuba, the European and new Latin American powers in the political conflicts, coups and revolutions.

Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin
Political Corruption in the Caribbean Basin

Author: Michael W. Collier

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1135871876

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Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This work discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to arrest corruption are failing by investigating the domestic and international causes of political corruption in the Caribbean.