Description
Governance in the Age of Globalisation provides a unique Caribbean perspective and analysis of the governance challenges at the national, regional and international levels. At the national level, the need for effective governance systems is highlighted as a critical requirement for promoting optimum levels of growth and development, guaranteeing human rights and ensuring political and social stability.
Similarity at the regional level, the deepening of the regional integration process envisaged in the implementation of a Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME), requires innovative ideas and initiatives for rationalizing governance structures. Moreover, since the process of globalization and changes in the geopolitical configuration of the international system have major implications for the exercise of power in that system, the establishment of suitable governance structures at the global level requires analysis.
In this volume, academics from a wide range of disciplines, professional from both the public and private sectors and representatives of international organizations and development agencies, share views and present concrete proposals for effective governance systems under the broad headings of governance systems and structures; theoretical aspects as they relate to democracy and development; governance at the international level and its impact on the small states of the Caribbean; and the vital role that the state, the public and private sectors and other branches of the regional society play in promoting good governance.
This volume represents an edited collection of papers that were delivered at the 2002 Mona Academic Conference on the theme The Governance Challenge: National, Regional and Global Dimensions.
About the Author
Denis Benn is Michael Manley Professor of Public Affairs and Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Mona. His other publications include Multilateral Diplomacy and the Economics of Change: The Third World and the New International Economic Order.
H.E. the Most Hon. Professor Kenneth Hall is Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona campus.
Contents
Part 1: The Governance Challenge – Overarching Perspectives
- New Conceptions of Governance in Small States – Ralph Gonsalves
- Governance and the New Imperium – Shridath Ramphal
Part 2: Global Governance
- Globalisation and the Caribbean in the Age of Neo-Mercantilist Imperialism – Hilbourne Watson
- Rethinking International Relations: A Caribbean Small State Perspective – Jessica Bryan
- Global Governance in the Context of Globalisation: The Imperatives of Economic Change – Maurice Odle
- Governance in International Trade: The Misconduct of Transnational Corporations – Taimoon Stewart
Part 3: Governance: Theoretical Aspects
- Designing and Implementing Policy: The Shift to Holistic Approaches and Development Policy Frameworks – Clive Thomas
- Governance in the Context of Globalisation and Regional – Anthony Payne
- Governance in Small Societies: The Importance of Strong Democracy – Neville Duncan
- Majoritarian and Consociational Systems of Governance: Paradigms in Conflict – Selwyn Ryan
- Engendering Governance: Strategies for Promoting Gender Equality – Barbara Bailey and Elsa Leo-Rhynie
Part 4: Governance Systems and Structures
- Caribbean Governance Systems: The Historical Legacy – Roy Augier
- Institutional Design for Sub-national Governance – Edwin Jones
- ‘Nah Vote Again’ – Representations of Governance in Jamaican Popular Culture – Carolyn Cooper
- The Caribbean Diaspora/Caribbean Homeland Dialectic and the Global Caribbean – Locksley Edmondson
Part 5: State, Economy and Society
- Civil Society, Governance and Conflict Resolution in the Caribbean – Cedric Grant
- Guyana: Governance and Patterns of Ethnic Conflict – Ralph Premdas
- Multi-Ethnic Divisions and Governance: The Problem of Institutional reform and Adaptation – Ralph Premdas
- Governance Under Threat: The Impact of Corruption and the Flight Against Corruption – Trevor Munroe
- Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror: Challenges of Intrusion and Governance – Ivelaw Griffith
- Governance, Public Sector Reform and ‘New Public Sector Management’: Thoughts on the Commonwealth Caribbean Experience – Paul Sutton
- Governance and the Media: Promoting Transparency and Accountability – Oliver Clarke
- Governance, Social Protection and Employment in CARICOM: Is Labour Missing? – Orville Taylor
- Promoting Good Governance: The Role of the Media – John Maxwell
- Government for Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Development: Issues in Development Cooperation – Naresh Singh
Part 6: Regional Governance
- CARICOM: From Community to Single Market and Economy – Havelock Brewster
- Regional Integration Institutional Arrangements: Underlying Assumptions and Contemporary Appropriateness – Vaughan Lewis
- Sub-Regional Cooperation: The OECS Experience – K. Dwight Venner
- Regional Cooperation and Economic Governance: The Case of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) – Norman Girvan
- The Caribbean Court of Justice in Regional Economic Development – Duke Pollard
- The Caribbean Court of Justice: The Need for Confidence Building Measures – Stephen Vasciannie
Part 7: Governance: The Way Forward
- Governance in the Contemporary Caribbean: The Way Forward – Towards a Political Culture of Partnership – Rex Nettleford
