Caribbean Political Economy at the Crossroads: NAFTA and Regional Developmentalism

by D. Marshall

Overview

There are a variety of crisis symptoms confronting the Commonwealth Caribbean as the 21st century dawns. Global changes are quickly rendering the region's traditional economic platform obsolete. This book suggests however that the expanding NAFTA or the hemispheric turn towards bloc formation can offer a way out for the Caribbean. Politics must be brought back into the regionalisation process, for each island government is witnessing the narrowing of the range of its state power by powerful TNCs, international financial institutions, Washington interests, and corporate-backed WTO commissions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333714348
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/23/1998
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Beyond the Paradigmatic Interregnum in Development: Rethinking Ascent in the International System The State and the Caribbean Development Experience Global Restructuring and World System Continuity The Crisis of the National Option in the Caribbean Nafta/Ftaa and the New Articulation in the Americas: 'Re-Colonisation' or Structural Opportunity? Reconstituting State Power at the Regional Level: The Road to Achieving Ascent in the Next Century Conclusions Endnotes Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'The book is clearly a work of considerable scholarship and has quickly become an important influence in Caribean cultural analysis.' - Shibboleths: a Journal of Comparative Theory

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