Description
This edited volume brings together the perspectives of scholars and officials from Europe and the Caribbean to provide a much-needed international, comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on the status and performance of the non-independent territories in the Caribbean. The status of the non-independent Caribbean remains problematic. None of the islands wish to stand on their own as sovereign states, but many are also dissatisfied with the status quo. They have surrendered aspects of their political, economic and cultural identities to external centres of power, leading to a complex and sometimes unsatisfactory state of affairs in both the territories and their metropoles.
Governance in the Non-Independent Caribbean: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty First Century utilises the current debates in political science, international relations, international political economy, and development studies to create a framework of analysis to consider trends within the non-independent Caribbean. The book offers an interdisciplinary and international set of contributions providing an assessment of how these rather forgotten but important territories are facing the challenges of globalisation through a particularly interesting and unusual set of governance arrangements.
About the Author
Peter Clegg is senior lecturer of politics and international relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is author of The Caribbean Banana Trade: From Colonialism to Globalization (2002).
Emilio Pantojas-García is a political sociologist and has published widely on Caribbean economic development. He is senior researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, adjunct professor in the Graduate Programme in Sociology, and currently acting director of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico.
Contents
Introduction
Non-independent territories and small states: retrospect and prospect Paul Sutton
Part I: Territorial Polity in the Age of Postcolonialism
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- Governing the UK Caribbean Overseas Territories: a two-way perspective Peter Clegg
- The implosion of the Netherlands Antilles Lammert de Jong
- US non-incorporated territories in the Caribbean: Factors contributing to stalemate and potential political change in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands Angel Israel Rivera
- Recent developments in the French Antilles: The political-institutional debate the difficult reconciliation of conflicting aspirations Justin Daniel
Part II: Globalization and Development
- The benefits of being neither fish nor fowl: The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories in the international community Ronald Sanders
- Governing the offshore: non-independent Caribbean jurisdictions, the EU and the International William Vlcek
- The French Caribbean and the challenge of neoliberal globalisation: The silent death of Tricolore development? Matthew Bishop
- The end of metropolitan protectionism: Trade liberalization and economic development in Puerto Rico Emilio Pantojas-García
Part III: Identity and Migration
- Migration paradoxes of non-sovereignty: A comparative perspective on the Dutch Caribbean Gert Oostindie
- The nation in the diaspora: The multiple repercussions of Puerto Rico emigration Jorge Duany
- Migration in the French Caribbean: People from around here and over there, and the question of visibility Monique Milia-Marie-Luce
Part IV: The Non-Independent Caribbean in Context
- Geopolitics in the South Atlantic: Contemporary governance and the UK Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Klaus Dodds
- Gibraltar: When is a colony decolonised? Peter Gold
- A view of the metropole Carlyle Crobin
Conclusion: Peter Clegg and Emilio Pantojas-García
