The Impact of the Caribbean Basin Initiative in Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean
Author : Catherine Hyett
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Catherine Hyett
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Abigail B. Bakan
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0889208867
The election of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States in November 1980 opened a new chapter in international relations; U.S. foreign policy shifted from an alliance-based, consensual approach to one based on a more overt use of its immense economic and, above all, military power. This policy entailed some stark choices for the U.S.A.’s allies and neighbours and, above all, for the small countries of Central America and the Caribbean. This revealing book tells the story of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), through which the new assertion of U.S. hegemony in the region was expressed. The CBI entitled “friendly” countries of the region (i.e., excluding Cuba, pre-invasion Grenada and Nicaragua) to military and economic aid plus incentives, modelled on the so-called “Puerto Rican miracle,” so as to reorient their trade towards the U.S.A. The authors carefully compare the claims made for the CBI with its underlying political objectives and examine its actual impact on regional development through detailed case studies of the Eastern Caribbean and Trinidad. Also examined are the impact of the CBI on Caribbean regional integration and the responses of Canada and Britain, the two other major countries with long-standing political and economic interests in the Caribbean. What emerges from this investigation is the way the CBI reflects the U.S.A.’s historic quest for regional dominance, rather than a new era in Caribbean development.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Richard E. Feinberg
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Ramon Rafael Peralta
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Joan French
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Economic assistance, American
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,31 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Doug Hellinger
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Caribbean Area
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