Description
The idea that the Caribbean could be devolving downward in wealth, function and sovereignty has become a recurrent theme in both academic and popular literature. By focusing on some of the issues facing Caribbean nation states, the editors and contributors to this volume inform and contribute to the ongoing debate on the broad themes of Sovereignty and Development and the prospects for survival of Caribbean nation states in a globalised world.
Copiously illustrated with over 35 tables and figures, some chapters describe and analyse the range and complexity of the challenge to national sovereignty and public policy autonomy, while others focus on issues relating to small country size, gender and ethnic tensions, security, constitutional reform and regional integration. The result is a balanced perspective; the contributors do not gloss over the problem faced by the region. At the same time they do not present a hyper-pessimistic picture of Caribbean development prospects.
What gives the collection a particular dynamism is the way in which the authors have challenged the terrain of political possibilities traditionally defined for small peripheral societies.
About the Author
Cynthia Barrow-Giles is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados. She is the author of Introduction to Caribbean Politics (2002).
Don D. Marshall is a Research Fellow in the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He is the author of Caribbean Political Economy at the Crossroads (1998) and co-editor of The Empowering Impulse: The Nationalist Tradition of Barbados (2001).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction Living at the Borderlines – Don D. Marshall and Cynthia Barrow-Giles
PART I NAVIGATING GLOBALISATION
- Toward a Collectively Rational and Democratic Global Commonwealth: Globalisation from Below – Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Containing Globalisation: Rethinking the Dynamic Structural and Ethical Premises of Multilateral Trade Negotiations – Michael H. Allen
- Dangerous Waters: Sovereignty, Self-determinism and Resistance – Cynthia Barrow-Giles
- Governance and Re-regulation of Offshore Financial Centres: (Re) Framing the Confines of Legitimate Debate and Protest – Don D. Marshall
- Governance, Industrial Policy and the New Global Economy: The Case for Cultural Industries – Keith Nurse
PART II CRISIS OF ADJUSTMENT
- Understanding the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Globalisation: The Case of Bananas in St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines – Dave Ramsaran
- The Legitimacy of Neo-Liberal Trade Regimes in the Caribbean: Issues of ‘Race’, Class and Gender – Holger Henke and Don D. Marshall
- A Gendered Analysis of the Impact on Women’s Work of Changing State Policies in Barbados – Ann Denis
- Changing Skill Demands in Manufacturing and the Impact on Caribbean Female Workers – Daphne Jayasinghe
PART III RISK AND SECURITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN
- Security and Sovereignty in the Contemporary Caribbean: Probing Elements of the Local-Global Nexus – Ivelaw L. Griffith
- The ‘Shiprider Solution’ and Post-Cold War Imperialism: Beyond Ontologies of State Sovereignty in the Caribbean – Hilbourne Watson
- Environmental Policy Challenges and Growth in Guyana – Lomarsh Roopnarine
- Environmental Security Risks for Caribbean States: Legal Dimensions – Winston
Anderson
PART IV CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION RECONSIDERED
- Is the Goal of Regional Integration Still Relevant among Small States? The Case
of the OECS and CARICOM – Patsy Lewis
- From National Independence to a Single Caribbean State: Views on the Barbados-OECS Initiative – Cynthia Barrow-Giles
- Trends in Labour Migration and its Implications for the Caribbean – David Nii Addy
PART V CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND CARIBBEAN GOVERNANCE
- Democracy and Electoral Reform in the Anglophone Eastern Caribbean – Douglas Midgett
- Race, Ideology, and International Relations: Sovereignty and the Disciplining of Guyana’s Working Class – Percy C. Hintzen
- Which Way Forward: Constitutional Issues and Reform in the Twin-Island Federation of St Kitts and Nevis – Simon Jones-Hendrickson
- The Privy Council and the 1990 Insurrection in Trinidad and Tobago: Judicial Confusion and Implications for the Future – Hamid A. Ghany
- New Horizons in Caribbean Democracy – Kenny D. Anthony
- Governance in the Caribbean in the Age of Globalisation – Ralph Gonsalves
PART VI RECOVERING CARIBBEAN HISTORY: DISCOURSE ON RACE AND PLANTATION POLITICS
- Plantalogical Politics: Battling for Space and the Jamaican Constitution – Taitu A. Heron
- The Haitian Revolution and the Discourse on Race and Slavery – David Granger
Index
