CARICOM: Policy options for international engagement
- Publisher:
- Ian Randle Publishers Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2010-07-18
- Authors:
-
Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang
Kenneth O. Hall
(Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) - ISBN:
- 978-976-637-678-9
Description:
CARICOM's success in navigating the global environment calls for a paradigm shift in diplomatic initiatives from a bi-lateral platform towards a collective and synchronised effort at the regional, hemispheric and global levels. The development of a cohgesive CARICOM foregin policy would provide a more structured foundation for maximising the collective efforts, resources and gains. In CARICOM: Policy Options for International Engagement, the contributors bring a wealth of experience and knowledge in putting forward the critical questions policymakers must consider and answer, in charting the course and laying the framework for this coordinated structure and foreign policy plan. Divided into four sections, the volume firstly presents the perspectives that corroborate the need for collective action. The second section focuses on the emerging powers and the need for South to South Cooperation while the third section discusses the external trade negotiations and the impact of the loss of EU preferences and subsidies; the EPA and trade negotiations in the WTO; and the new CARICOM-US trade relations. In the fourth and final section, the volume is rounded out by an examination of the kind of cooperation that is needed first at the regional level to sustain economic development. The need for harmonisation of fisheries policies and the prevention of maritime degradation; the preservation of the environment and the need to reverse the effects of climate change; the need for a cohesive regional security policy and a viable air transportation industry as well as the legal framework to implement multilateral treaties are all examined as imperative to CARICOM s development of a Coordinated regional foreign policy plan.
Preliminary sections
Part 1
- Caribbean Development in a Changing Global Environment
- The Strategic Positioning of the Caribbean Community in the Changing Global Environment
- A Cohesive CARICOM Foreign Policy: Harnessing a Regional Public Good
- CARICOM Foreign Policy: Some Requirements for the 21st Century
- CARICOM Integration: The Need for Institutional Transformation
- Transformative Power of the Caribbean Diaspora
- Economic Management: Past, Present and Future
- The Ideological Roots of the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for CARICOM
- From Offshore\Governmental to Onshore\Entrepreneurial Economies
- The Caribbean in the Changing Global Political Economy
- CARICOM and the Millennium Development Goals
Part 3
- The Economic Partnership Agreement and the Building of a Post-Colonial Economy in the Caribbean
- The Anti-Development Dimension of the European Community's Economic Partnership Agreement for the Caribbean
- Reflections on the CARIFORUM - EC Economic Partnership Agreement: Implications for CARICOM
- The Caribbean Community in the age of Globalisation: The Impact and Effectiveness of Foreign Policy Coordination
- Investment Provisions in Economic Partnership Agreements
- The Sugar Lobby 2004-2006: A Case for more Innovative Diplomacy
- EPA's Investment Commitments: International Standards as Facilitators of Integration and Compliance
- CARICOM Trade Agenda in the World Trade Organization
- CARICOM in Multilateral Trade Negotiations
- CARICOM-US Trade Relations in an Era of 'Open Regionalism
Part 4
- Future Directions of Caribbean Foreign Policy: The Oceans
- A Common Fisheries Policy and Regime for CARICOM: A Single Economic Space?
- The Caribbean and the Climate Change Negotiations in Copenhagen, December 2009
- Regional Security versus National Security
- CARICOM and Security Governance: Probing the Limits of Regional Cooperation
- Building a CARICOM Air Transport Policy: Some Considerations
- Juridical and Constitutional Implications of CARICOM Treaty Practice
- Reflections: A Viewpoint from the Diaspora
- Contributors