| Selected Books on Caribbean Politics |
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Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers (August 2002)
ISBN-10: 9766370494
ISBN-13: 978-9766370497 |
Introduction to Caribbean Politics
by Cynthia Barrow-Giles
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| Author: Cynthia Barrow-Giles gives an introductory text for students of Caribbean politics at the undergraduate level. The text is structured around a number of core issues which are used to present an analysis of Caribbean politics. These issue areas include: Imperialism • Struggles of the Working Class People and their Protest • The Politics of Constitutional Decolonisation and the Westminster Model • Party Systems and Electoral Politics in the Region • Trade Unionism in the Commonwealth Caribbean • The Politics of Change: Structural Adjustment via the Non-Capitalist Path to Development • Regional Integration. Each concept or issue is supplemented by selected readings mainly from published works but also including a number of original articles specially commissioned for this book. The student-friendly text contains summaries of the key concepts dealt with in each section, questions to test students understanding, a variety of activities, suggestions for further reading and even a self-assessment section. |
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Paperback: 177 pages
Publisher: Arawak Publications (October 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9769504785
ISBN-13: 978-9769504783 |
Foundations of Caribbean Politics
by Robert Buddan
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| Probably the two main concepts around which studies of the historical Caribbean have been organized are nationalism and the plantation. The former stresses an ongoing struggle for emergence on the part of a people for self-government, identity and empowerment. The latter emphasises the plantation as the crucible out of which Caribbean societies have been conditioned and the legacy of slavery, sugar and colonialism. This study accepts these two principal organising concepts but utilises them against the main concerns that are current: the problems of democratisation, the effectiveness of civil society, the constraints and opportunities of small size, the appropriate role of the state, and the search by Caribbean people for a better life or, at least, another life abroad. Together, we might regard these as issues of reconstruction that face the modern Caribbean. By building on the traditional themes then, one might see the organising concepts for this work as the plantation, nationalism and (a consciousness towards) reconstruction. |
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Paperback: 744 pages
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers (February 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9766371105
ISBN-13: 978-9766371104 |
The Caribbean Economy: A Reader
by Dennis Pantin
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| The Reader analyses the changes which have taken place in the economies of the countries of the Caribbean since political independence from the 1960s onwards. It also describes how the Caribbean economy works and examines whether it can deliver imported standards of living for Caribbean people. To fully understand the dynamics of the present-day Caribbean economy, the analysis is given a historical perspective with a discussion of developments starting from the post World War Two period, which represented a turning point for much of the world’s economy.
The selections in the first section of the book may be described as ‘The Classics’ providing a historical overview and featuring some of the seminal works on the fundamentals of the Caribbean economy by W. Arthur Lewis, Lloyd Best, William Demas, Eric St. Cyr, Havelock Brewster and C.Y. Thomas among others. Thereafter, the focus shifts to sectoral analyses including the Traditional Commodity-Based Export Sectors like Sugar, Banana, Petroleum and Bauxite; the new Service-Based Export Industries like Offshore Financial Services; the Music Industry and an examination of such issues as Migration and Remittances, and the future of Caribbean economies in the new trading environment.
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Paperback: 372 pages
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers (February 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9766372209
ISBN-13: 978-9766372200 |
Caribbean Imperatives: Regional Governance and Integrated Development
by Dennis Benn (Editor), Kenneth Hall (Editor)
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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.
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Paperback: 544 pages
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers (January 2, 2005)
ISBN-10: 9766370567
ISBN-13: 978-9766370565 |
CARICOM: Our Caribbean Community - An Introduction
by CARICOM Secretariat (Author)
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This introductory text provides a comprehensive source of information on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its people. It locates the region and people of CARICOM within the wider hemispheric and global community, and traces key developments that led to the establishment of CARIFTA, later CARICOM and beyond that, the significant initiatives being taken to strengthen the Community, most notably the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Equally important, the book describes in detail, the history and the structure and functioning of our Community. It also highlights the many issues and initiatives on which the Community has focused over time as well as the major subjects on its current agenda, explaining their actual and potential impact on our people. It also points to future challenges. |
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Paperback: 346 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (February 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801844355
ISBN-13: 978-0801844355 |
Modern Caribbean Politics
by Anthony Payne (Editor), Paul R. Sutton (Editor)
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A successor volume to the editors' Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Manchester U. Press, 1984), this volume reviews political and economic developments of the 1980s not just in the Commonwealth Caribbean but in the whole of the Caribbean region, in original analyses by specialist scholars in the field of Caribbean studies.
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