Author: Catherine Hyett
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 103

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Author: Abigail B. Bakan
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889208867
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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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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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Richard E. Feinberg
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Joan French
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Doug Hellinger
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Ramon Rafael Peralta
Publisher:
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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