Caribbean Political Economy at the Crossroads: Nafta and Regional Developmentalism

by Don D. Marshall

There are a variety of crisis symptoms confronting the Commonwealth Caribbean as the twenty-first-century dawns. Global changes are quickly rendering the regions traditional economic platform obsolete. Marshall suggests, however, that the expanding NAFTA or the hemispheric turn towards bloc formation can offer a way out for the Caribbean. Politics, however, must be brought back into the regionalization 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.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published September 23, 1998