Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean: Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada, 1970-1985

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Lexington Books, 2002 - 450 pages
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Was the Anglophone Caribbean condemned by its colonial history to permanent conditions of dependency and by Cold War geopolitical realities to international interventionism? In Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean Euclid Rose focuses upon the efforts made by the English-speaking Caribbean--through case studies that compare and contrast the political economies of Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada--to break out of the legacy of colonial dependency and underdevelopment through the implementation of a Caribbean brand of socialism. The work considers the Caribbean's adoption of Fabian-style socialism as an alternative to capitalist development and how these socialist policies were impacted by differences in infrastructure capacity, economic and social resources and political agendas. It highlights the pivotal role of race and class, and the hitherto little studied impact of religion, on the region's political economy. Moreover, the study calculates the impact of the global economy upon Caribbean socio-economic conditions, and the ideological, geopolitical, and strategic implications of the Cold War and the Caribbean's socialist alignment on the nature, character, and intensity of British and American interventionism in the region. A must read for political economists in search of a greater understanding of the postcolonial political economy of the Caribbean and Latin America.
 

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Table des matières

The Development of the Political Economy of the Caribbean
15
Dependency in the Caribbean
49
The Struggle to Overcome Dependency in the Caribbean through Integration
87
International Challenge to Dependency by CARICOM States
115
Guyana The Adoption of Cooperative Socialism
157
Jamaica The Declaration of Democratic Socialism
219
Revolutionary Socialism Grenadas Experience
279
USLed Destabilization of Guyana Jamaica and Grenada
345
Conclusion Dependency Socialism and Superpower Intervention in the Caribbean
389
Bibliography
413
Index
431
About the Author
451
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Page 50 - By dependence we mean a situation in which the economy of certain countries is conditioned by the development and expansion of another economy to which the former is subjected. The relation of interdependence between two or more economies, and between these and world trade, assumes the form of dependence when some countries (the dominant ones) can expand and can be...‎
Page 145 - Solemnly proclaim our united determination to work urgently for the establishment of a new international economic order based on equity, sovereign equality, interdependence, common interest and cooperation among all States, irrespective of their economic and social systems which shall correct Inequalities and redress existing injustices, make it possible to eliminate the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries and ensure steadily accelerating economic and social development...‎
Page xiii - UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations...‎
Page 116 - Trade (GATT) ; the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ; the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) ; the International Finance Corporation (IFC) ; and the various other United Nations agencies including the Economic Commission for Europe.‎
Page 50 - The relation of interdependence between two or more economies, and between these and world trade, assumes the form of dependence when some countries (the dominant ones) can expand and can be self-sustaining, while other countries (the dependent ones) can do this only as a reflection of that expansion, which can have either a positive or a negative effect on their immediate development [7, p.‎
Page 355 - If we cannot defend ourselves there we cannot expect to prevail elsewhere. Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble and the safety of the homeland would be put in jeopardy."6 Exactly so.‎
Page 59 - Economic dependence may be defined as a lack of capacity to manipulate the operative elements of an economic system. Such a situation is characterised by an absence of inter-dependence between the economic functions of a system.‎
Page 175 - an independent British Guiana under Burnham (if Burnham will commit himself to a multi-racial policy) would cause us many fewer problems than an independent British Guiana under Jagan...‎
Page 25 - Our West Indian colonies, for example, cannot be regarded as countries with a productive capital of their own... [but are, rather,] the place where England finds it convenient to carry on the production of sugar, coffee and a few other tropical commodities.‎

Ă€ propos de l'auteur (2002)

Euclid A. Rose is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Siena College.

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