Pan-Caribbean Integration

Patsy Lewis is Professor of Regional Integration and Small States Development at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is also Visiting Professor at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, USA. Her research has focused on CARICOM and the OECS as well as small states development. She is a graduate of Cambridge University (Mphil, PhD.) and the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (BA). Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica where she chairs the SALISES 50/50 Youth Research Cluster which supports evidence-based youth policies and programmes in the Caribbean. She is the author of The Politics of Integration: Caribbean Sovereignty Revisited, Ian Randle, 2013 and Editor of Youthscapes’ of Development in the Caribbean and Latin America, a 2014 Special Issue of the journal Social and Economic Studies (63:3&4). She was Commonwealth Academic Fellow at the Institute of the Americas, University College London in the 2016/2017 academic year.Jessica Byron is Professor of Caribbean International Relations and Diplomacy and Director of the Institute of the Institute of International Relations, UWI St Augustine Campus, Trinidad. She has published extensively on Caribbean-Latin American international relations and on small states and territories in the global political economy. Her latest publications include ‘Summitry in the Caribbean Community: A Fundamental Feature of Regional Governance’ in Summits and Regional Governance: The Americas in Comparative Perspective (Routledge) and ‘Martinique’s Accession to the OECS: A New Chapter in Caribbean Regionalism?’ in The Round Table (106 (3)).

"The CARICOM plus approach in this publication provides a reflection on Caribbean nationalism, regionalism and identity in one comprehensive space. The timeliness of this collection underpins its relevance and its historical connectedness ensures that this publication will become the foundation for many future writings. The "vectors of connection" explored broaden the dialectic space that should keep scholars engaged for decades." - June Soomer, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS)"Caribbean integration processes have suffered major setbacks of late. This book, Pan-Caribbean Integration: Beyond CARICOM, offers a way out of the sterile attempts at state-led and top-down regional integration and suggests that such integration may be more productively driven by non-state and bottom up forces. A must read for anyone interested in reimagine the Caribbean’s future." - Professor W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta & Former Director, Institute of International Relations, UWI.

• Part I: The Foundations of Pan-Caribbean Regionalism. 1 Pan-Caribbeanism and the CARICOM Widening Project. 2 Constructing the Greater Caribbean. 3 Diaspora, Affective Ties, and the New Global Order: Caribbean Implications. Part II: Confronting Boundaries of Formal Sovereignty. 4 Responses to the Sovereignty/Vulnerability/Development Dilemmas: Small Territories and Regional Organizations in the Caribbean. 5 The Stake of Admitting the French Caribbean Territory Authorities to CARICOM and the OECS. 6 A Deeper Regional Incorporation for the French Territories of the Americas: the shifting dynamics of French foreign policy. 7 The Insularisation of a regional university: The case of the former UAG. Part III: Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Challenges to Integration. 8 Haiti-CARICOM relations: Between fascination and mistrust. 9 French or Creole: Which Second Language for CARICOM? 10 Imaginary Narratives about Dominicanos of Haitian Descent: The Media Debates Around Sonia Pierre and Juliana Deguis. Part IV: Assessing Initiatives in Pan-Caribbean Regionalism. 11 Cuba’s Cooperation with CARICOM: From Grant Aid to Compensated Development Cooperation. 12 Towards a New Latin American-Caribbean Regionalism of Solidarity. 13 Opportunities for CARICOM in ALBA, PetroCaribe and CELAC. Part V: Global and Regional Trends: Implications for Pan-Caribbean Integration. 14 Far from Home but Close at Heart’: Preliminary Considerations on Regional Integration, Deterritorialization and the Caribbean Diaspora. 15 CARICOM and the Rising Powers: India, China and Brazil’s Growing South-South Cooperation in the Region.16 Confronting shifting economic and political terrains.