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Caribbean sovereignty, development, and democracy in an age of globalization /

Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of these nati...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lewis, Linden
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; v. 100.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Ageof Globalization; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Sovereignty, Heterodoxy, and the Last Desperate Shibboleth of Caribbean Nationalism: Linden Lewis; Part I: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Sovereigntyin the Caribbean; 1. Class, Power, Sovereignty: Haiti before and after the Earthquake: Alex Dupuy; 2. Transnational Capitalist Globalization and the Limits of Sovereignty: State, Security, Order, Violence, and the Caribbean: Hilbourne A. Watson.
  • 3. The Dissolution of the Myth of Sovereignty in the Caribbean: Linden Lewis4. Dependent Capitalism and the Challenge to Democracy and Sovereignty in the Caribbean: Anton L. Allahar; Part II: Arrested Development and the Cultural Turn; 5. The "Myth" of Development: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago: Dave Ramsaran; 6. Paradoxical Sovereignty: Imagining Caribbean Futures: Silvio Torres-Saillant; 7. Sovereignty/Intimacy: Political Openings in Contemporary Jamaica: Deborah A. Thomas; Part III:Caribbean Futures.
  • 8. Curaçaons on the Question of Home: The Lure of Autochthony and Its Alternatives: Francio Guadeloupe9. Nonsovereign Futures?: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment: Yarimar Bonilla; 10. Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty: Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty?: Brian Meeks; Afterword: Cary Fraser; About the Contributors; Index.