RANSFORD. W. PALMER is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Among his earlier publications are Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America (1995), In Search of a Better Life: Perspectives on Migration from the Caribbean (Praeger, 1990), and Caribbean Dependence on the United States Economy (Praeger, 1979).

• Introduction by Ransford W. Palmer Historical Overview The Caribbean: The American Proscenium or, the Americas Began There by Franklin W. Knight The Politics of US-Caribbean Relations The Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations by Cedric Grant US-Cuban Relations: Moving Beyond the Cold War to the New International Order? by H. Michael Erisman The US-UN Military Intervention and the Prospects for Democracy in Haiti by Alex Dupuy The Economics of US-Caribbean Relations US-Haiti Trade Relations: From Bilateral to Trade Bloc by Kathleen Dorsainvil US-Caribbean Trade Relations over the Last Decade: From CBI to ACS by Gregory K. Schoepfle The Washington Consensus and the Prospects for Authentic Development in the Caribbean by Wilfred L. David A Post-NAFTA US Trade Policy for the Caribbean by George A. Dalley ACS: A Distraction from the FTAA Process by John Harrington and Peter Johnson Assessment Assessing the New Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations: Is It Repositioning? by Leslie F. Manigat Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

RANSFORD. W. PALMER is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Among his earlier publications are Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America (1995), In Search of a Better Life: Perspectives on Migration from the Caribbean (Praeger, 1990), and Caribbean Dependence on the United States Economy (Praeger, 1979).

• Introduction by Ransford W. Palmer Historical Overview The Caribbean: The American Proscenium or, the Americas Began There by Franklin W. Knight The Politics of US-Caribbean Relations The Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations by Cedric Grant US-Cuban Relations: Moving Beyond the Cold War to the New International Order? by H. Michael Erisman The US-UN Military Intervention and the Prospects for Democracy in Haiti by Alex Dupuy The Economics of US-Caribbean Relations US-Haiti Trade Relations: From Bilateral to Trade Bloc by Kathleen Dorsainvil US-Caribbean Trade Relations over the Last Decade: From CBI to ACS by Gregory K. Schoepfle The Washington Consensus and the Prospects for Authentic Development in the Caribbean by Wilfred L. David A Post-NAFTA US Trade Policy for the Caribbean by George A. Dalley ACS: A Distraction from the FTAA Process by John Harrington and Peter Johnson Assessment Assessing the New Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations: Is It Repositioning? by Leslie F. Manigat Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors

RANSFORD. W. PALMER is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Among his earlier publications are Pilgrims from the Sun: West Indian Migration to America (1995), In Search of a Better Life: Perspectives on Migration from the Caribbean (Praeger, 1990), and Caribbean Dependence on the United States Economy (Praeger, 1979).

• Introduction by Ransford W. Palmer Historical Overview The Caribbean: The American Proscenium or, the Americas Began There by Franklin W. Knight The Politics of US-Caribbean Relations The Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations by Cedric Grant US-Cuban Relations: Moving Beyond the Cold War to the New International Order? by H. Michael Erisman The US-UN Military Intervention and the Prospects for Democracy in Haiti by Alex Dupuy The Economics of US-Caribbean Relations US-Haiti Trade Relations: From Bilateral to Trade Bloc by Kathleen Dorsainvil US-Caribbean Trade Relations over the Last Decade: From CBI to ACS by Gregory K. Schoepfle The Washington Consensus and the Prospects for Authentic Development in the Caribbean by Wilfred L. David A Post-NAFTA US Trade Policy for the Caribbean by George A. Dalley ACS: A Distraction from the FTAA Process by John Harrington and Peter Johnson Assessment Assessing the New Association of Caribbean States and US-Caribbean Relations: Is It Repositioning? by Leslie F. Manigat Selected Bibliography Index About the Contributors