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.

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DON MARSHALL is Research Fellow, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He received his doctorate in the field of international political economy (IPE) from the University of Newcastle (1996). His dissertation was one of eight in that year nominated for the Lord Bryce prize in IPE. He has published a number of articles in distinguished academic journals and this book represents a refinement of his position on the future of the Caribbean, the globalisation phenomenon, and the state of the art in IPE.

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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