Governance in the non-independent Caribbean
- Publisher:
- Ian Randle Publishers Ltd
- Publication date:
- 2009-11-21
- Authors:
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Peter Clegg
(Senior lecturer of politics and international relations at the University of the West of England, Bristol)
Emilio Pantojas-García
(Political sociologist and has published widely on Caribbean economic development) - ISBN:
- 978-976-637-388-7
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.
Part I
- Governing the UK Caribbean Overseas Territories: A Two-Way Perspective
- The Implosion of the Netherlands Antilles
- US Non-Incorporated Territories in the Caribbean: Factors Contributing to Stalemate and Potential Political Change in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
- Recent Developments in the French Antilles: The Political-Institutional Debate and the Difficult Reconciliation of Conflicting Aspirations
Part II
- The Benefits of Being neither Fish nor Fowl: The UK Caribbean Overseas Territories in the International Community
- Governing the Offshore: Non-Independent Caribbean Jurisdictions, the EU and the International
- The French Caribbean and the Challenge of Neoliberal Globalisation: The Silent Death of Tricolore Development?
- The End of Metropolitan Protectionism: Trade Liberalisation and Economic Development in Puerto Rico