Surviving Small Size: Regional Integration in Caribbean Ministates - Softcover

Lewis, Patsy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766401160 ISBN 13: 9789766401160

Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2002

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In 1987 St. Vincent's Prime Minister James Mitchell called on his fellow Prime Ministers in the Eastern Caribbean to merge their separate countries into a single state. He argued that individually they had exhausted the possibilities of separate independence and they could only pursue regional and international development and indeed economic survival by pooling their scarce resources to combat common problems. By the end of the year all the Leeward Islands rejected the initiative although it remained very much alive among the governments of the Windward chain, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia and the Commonwealth of Dominica. During the next eight years, efforts of the Windward Islands to merge were debated but the initiative for unification ultimately died. Through extensive interviews and analyses of primary documents, Lewis paints a compelling picture of island and regional jealousies and conflicting economic priorities, which prevented the Windward and Leeward Islands from cooperating and which ultimately destroyed the movement for political unification in the Windwards.

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Patsy Lewis is Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She recently received her Ph.D. degree in History from Cambridge University.

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• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9766401160
• ISBN 13: 9789766401160
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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