ContentsPreface

Part One: Globalization and Governance

Globalization and the Caribbean Vaughan A. Lewis

The Cotonou Agreement and the ACP-EU Partnership: Towards a Réévaluation of Politics?

Justin Daniel

Tripartite Social Partnerships in Small States: Barbados and Jamaica in Comparative Perspective

Philip D. Osei

Globalization, Diversity and Civil Society in the Caribbean: Integration by Design or Default?

Jack Menke

The Digital Divide : A New Imperialism?Gale Rigobert

Governance in a Small State A nn Marie Bissessar

Globalization, Governance and Integration: The Case o f Health Care Service as a Predictor o f Social Stability

Ronald Marshall

Rethinking Globalization’s Discontent Sadia Niyakan-Safy

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Part Two: The Economics of Globalization

Inequality and the Division o f Gains at the Global Level:Some Reflections

Ramesh Ramsaran

Small Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and Export Performance o f Member Countries: Trinidad and Tobago’s Experience W ithin CARICOM

Roger Hosein

Open Regionalism: The FTAA and Implications for CARICOM Development

Bhoendranatt Tewarie and Roger Hosein

Part Three: Cultural and Social Integration

Cultural Policy, Globalization and the Governance o f Plural Societies

John La Guerre

Caudillismo: A Framework of Resistance Ann-M arie Pouchet

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