The global trend toward increased involvement by non-governmental agencies and private parties has enriched the mix of actors operating at all levels of interstate and intersociety relations in the Caribbean. While many of these new relations persist in the traditional ties with the former colonial metropolises, there is evidence of new relations in the political, economic, gender, academic, and environmental areas. Even as this article examines many of these transnational relationships, it is not sanguine about the disappearance any time soon of the linguistic, ethnocultural, and political barriers that have historically kept the Caribbean balkanized.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
1. Andrés Serbin, Etnicidad, clase y nación en la cultura política del Caribe de habla inglesa (Caracas: Academia Nacional de Historia, 1987).
2.
2. Andrés Serbin, “Venezuela y el Grupo de los Tres en el marco de las transformaciones globales y hemisféricas,” in El Grupo de los Tres: Políticas de integración, ed. Andrés Serbin (Bogota: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung/Colombia, 1993), pp. 13-28.
3.
3. Sidney Weintraub, “The New U.S. Economic Initiative toward Latin America,”Journal of Inter-American and World Affairs, 33(1):1-18 (Spring 1991).
4.
4. Norman Girvan, “Reflections on Regional Integration and Disintegration,” in Integration and Participatory Development, ed. Judith Wedderburn (Bridgetown: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung/Association of Caribbean Economists, 1990), pp. 1-6.
5.
5. Raquel Gamus, Una fugaz convergencia: C.A.P. y la I.S. en Centroamérica (Caracas: Alta Científica, 1990), pp. 80-81.
6.
6. Permanent Commission of Latin American Political Parties, “Informe de actividades: Síntesis,” mimeo (San Angel Inn, Mexico: Permanent Commission of Latin American Political Parties, 1992).
7.
7. Parlatino, Anuario: Parlamento Latinoamericano (Caracas: Editorial Sarbo, 1992), p. 31.
8.
8. Richard Parker, El sindicalismo cristiano latinoamericano (Caracas: Consejo de Desarrollo Científico y Humanístico, 1988).
9.
9. Carmen D. Deere, ed., In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and U.S. Policy (Boulder, CO: PACCA-Westview, 1990), pp. 96-97.
10.
10. Ibid., pp. 112-13.
11.
11. Elsie Doñé Molina, “Conciencia de género” (Paper delivered at the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Havana, May 1991).
12.
12. Anthony P. Maingot, “Caribbean Studies as Area Studies,”Caribbean Educational Bulletin, 10(1) (Jan. 1983).
13.
13. Caribbean Agenda, 1(4) (June 1992).
14.
14. U.S., Congress, House, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade, Hearings, CLAA statement, 102d Cong., 1st sess., 28 Feb. 1991, p. 11.
