Living at the Borderlines: Caribbean Sovereignty and Development

The idea that the Caribbean could be devolving downward in wealth, function and sovereignty has become a recurrent theme in both academic and popular literature. While not glossing over the problems faced by the region, the papers in the volume do not present a hyperpessimistic picture of Caribbean development and the region’s future prospects. Some of the contributors seek to broadly outline and analyze the range and complexity of the challenge to sovereignty and public policy autonomy, others focus on issues relating to small country size, gender and ethnic tensions, constitutional reform and regional integration. But what gives the collection a particular dynamism is the way in which the authors have challenged the terrain of political possibility held for small peripheral societies.