Caribbean Imperatives. Regional Governance and Integrated Development
- Publisher:
- Ian Randle Publishers Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2005-02-15
- Authors:
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Kenneth Hall
(Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of the West Indies, Mona)
Denis Benn
(Michael Manley Professor of Public Affairs and Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Mona) - ISBN:
- 9766372209
Description:
"With the launch of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice, the Caribbean Community has taken major steps to promote closer and more intensive forms of economic cooperation among its constituent members. This effort requires the adoption of innovative approaches to regional governance and creative regional development strategies aimed at maximizing the exercise of sovereignty within the Community and also optimizing the development possibilities of the region. The 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Caribbean Community in 2003 marked an important milestone in the historical evolution of regional integration in the Caribbean. Caribbean Imperatives focuses on several important topics relevant to the future of the community by addressing issues such as the conception of the Caribbean Community; integration theory; the exercise of sovereignty; the Single Market and Economy; production integration; the external relations of the community; and the importance of multilateralism for the viability of small states in the international system. The analysis contained in the volume is extremely relevant to policy makers in the region in managing the transition to more intensive forms of regional integration aimed at improving the well-being of the people of the Caribbean."
Preliminary sections
Part One. Reconceptualizing The Caribbean Community
- Striving Toward a Reconfiguration of a Rational Community Through Shared Sovereignty
- Reconceptualizing the Caribbean Community: Reconciling Individual and Collective Exercise of Sovereignty - A Legal Perspective
- Sovereignty and the Search for Recognition
- Meck West Indies Federate': Celebrating the Arts of Regional Integration in the Poetry of Louise Bennett
Part Two. New Conceptions Of Regional Governance
- My Generation Comes to Power: A Time for Caribbean Leadership and Political Transformation
- On Strengthening National Foundations for Regional Governance
- The CARICOM Commission: Towards a Mature Regionalism
- Towards a Commission or Executive Authority for the Community
- Mature Regionalism and the Rose Hall Declaration on Regional Governance
- Rationalizing the Functions of the Organs of the Community
- Making the CARICOM Administrative Machinery Work: The Decentralization and Leadership Factor
- Caribbean Governance: Solving the St. Kitts-Nevis Dilemma and the Caribbean-Atlantic Wide Participation Conundrum
Part Three. The Caricom Single Market And Economy (CSME)
Part Four. Production Integration
- Production Integration Revisited in the Context of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy
- Caribbean Economic Integration: What is Happening Now; What Needs to be Done
- Production Integration: Perspectives from the OECS
- Fundamental Mechanisms of CARICOM-Type Economies: Revisiting the Dynamics of West Indian Economic Integration
Part Five. The Caribbean In The International System
Part Six. Promoting Multilateralism In International Relations
- Multilateralism in International Relations: Past Practice and Future Promise
- Promoting Multilateralism as the Guiding Principle in International Relations
- The Caribbean in a 'World That Has Lost Its Way' and The 'Crisis' of Multilateralism
- The Challenges to Multilateralism: A Role for the Small States of CARICOM
- The Future of Globalisation in a Unipolar Age
- Conclusion
- List of contributors
- Index