1st Edition

Caribbean Regional Integration A Critical Development Approach

By Patsy Lewis Copyright 2022
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse. The book asks what value neoliberal regionalism holds for the Caribbean, when its economic goals of efficiency and competitiveness serve to actively marginalize small states within the global community.... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction: the limits and possibilities of regional integration, Part 1: The long fraught road of Caribbean Integration, Chapter 2: CARICOM and that vexing issue of size and viability, Chapter 3: CARICOM Beyond the CSME, Part 2: Towards a more political integration, Chapter 4: Political Union: The Road not Travelled by the West Indian Commission, Chapter 5: The Agony of the Fifteen: the crisis of implementation, Chapter 6: Beyond Westminster in the Caribbean: A Perspective on the Regional Project, Part 3: Development and Regional Integration: Possible Futures, Chapter 7: Assessing the Development Potential of the FTAA and EPA for Small Developing States, Chapter 8: The Caribbean-EU relationship: Towards a more sovereign Caribbean, Chapter 9: Rethinking Development and the Regional Integration Project

Biography

Patsy Lewis is Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, USA.