Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

Introduction: Sovereignty, Heterodoxy, and the Last Desperate Shibboleth of Caribbean Nationalism; Linden Lewis. Part I: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Sovereignty in 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 Watson. 3: The Dissolution of the Myth of Sovereignty in the Caribbean; Linden Lewis. 4: Dependent Capitalism and the Challenge to Democracy and Sovereignty in the Caribbean; Anton 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: Democracy Imperiled. 8 - Curaçoans on the Question of Home: The Lure of Autochthony and Its Alternatives; Francio Guadeloupe. 9: Non-Sovereign Futures? French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment; Yarimar Bonilla. 10: Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty: Wither Nationalism and Sovereignty?; Brian Meeks. Afterword; Cary Fraser.