The Caribbean Community in Transition

Functional Cooperation as a Catalyst for Change

Edited by Kenneth Hall & Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang

Functional Cooperation has been recognized as vital to the Caribbean Regional Integration Movement. The adoption of a joint approach to deal with common problems is arguably the only way CARICOM countries will survive in the new international dispensation of globalization. In this multi-disciplinary collection, the contributors look at functional cooperation as the mechanism to safeguard CARICOM’s future. From Health to Telecommunications; Tourism to Education; the CCJ; private sector growth and public governance; a comprehensive overview of Functional Cooperation as a catalyst for change and growth is presented in The Caribbean Community in Transition.

Contents and Contributors

SECTION ONE – CONTEXT FOR CHANGE

1. Strengthening the Caribbean Community: A Comment on the Role of Functional Cooperation   Rudoph A. Collins
2. Functional Cooperation in CARICOM: Philosophical Perspectives, Conceptual Issues and Relevant Examples  George A.O. Alleyne
3. A Single Development Vision Norman Girvan
4. The Future of CARICOM in a Changing International Environment  Havelock R. Brewster
5. Governing Our Caribbean Region “To What End and in What Ways” Vaughn Lewis
6. Repositioning the Caribbean within Globalization Anthony Payne and Paul Sutton
7. Sovereignty, Democracy and Going Regional – Navigating Tensions: The Caribbean Community and the European Union Considered   Wendy Grenade
8. The Security – Development Nexus in United States-Caribbean Relations  Curtis Ward
9. The Changing International Political Environment and the Influence of Energy  Arthur A. Gray
10. A New Conceptual Approach to Caribbean Security  Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
11. The Transa-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: The Psychic Inheritance  Rex Nettleford

SECTION TWO – POLICY AGENDA

1. Public Governance, Private Sector Growth and the Public Interest Compton Bourne
2. Exploring the Tourism-HIV/AIDS Problematic: Policy Prescriptions to Balance Economic Development and Security Wendy Grenade
3. The Silent Challenge of the Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the Caribbean                    George Alleyne
4. Integrating the Caribbean Diaspora in US-Caribbean Relations C. Kenrick Hunte
5. Creating a Culture of Quality: The Role of the University of the West Indies in Caribbean Education  Elsa Leo-Rhynie and Marlene Hamilton
6. The Caribbean Examination Council and Regional Development  Wesley Barrett
7. Civil Society and CARICOM Integration  Rashleigh Jackson
8. Who Shall Govern US?  W. Haslyn Parris
9. Empowering the Diaspora and CARICOM to Collaborate: A road Map for Success in Today’s Economy   Michael Edmondson

SECTION THREE – FUTURE PROSPECTS

1. The Urgency of Functional Co-operation: Priority Interventions in Selected Areas (Disaster Preparedness, Health, Education and Security) Clive Thomas
2. The University of the West Indies: Towards a New Development Paradigm Haslyn Parris
3. West Indian Nationhood and Cricket in the 21^st Century Hilary Beckles
4. Cultural Industries and Small Developing States in the Context of Globalization: An Agenda for the Caribbean  Keith  Nurse (Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery)
5. Action Plan for Telecommunications & ICT Services in CARICOM: Addressing Convergence Issues in A Single Market  (Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery)
6. CARICOM Commission on Youth Development Barry Chevannes
7. Global Climate Change: Challenges for CARICOM  Ulric Trotz
8. Labour and the CSME Joseph Goddard
9. The Caribbean Court of Justice: An Innovation in Functional Cooperation  Duke E. E. Pollard

Professor Emeritus, and Former Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona

Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang

Project Director, UWI-CARICOM Project

ISBN 978-976-637-357-3

Price US$35.00

Size 7″x10″

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