Canadian-Caribbean Relations in Transition

SAHADEO BASDEO Professor of History and International relations at Okanagan University College, in Kelowna, British Columbia, CanadaRICHARD L. BERNAL Chairman of the Consultative on Smaller Economies in the Free Trade Area of the Americas process and Jamaica's representative on the Special Trade Committee of the OAS and the Committee for Hemispheric Financial IssuesANTHONY T. BRYAN Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center at the University of Miami and a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.CMIRIAM L. CAMPANELLA researches and teaches in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Turin (Italy)WINSTON DOOKERAN Governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and TobagoIVELAW L. GRIFFITH Political Science Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University in Miami, FloridaJERRY HAAR Senior Research Associate and Director of the Inter-American Business and Labor Program at the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center and Research Affiliate at Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American StudiesJENNIFER HOSTEN-CRAIG Senior Program Officer, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)M.C. IRCHA Assistant Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New BrunswickHAL KLEPAK Professor of Latin American military and diplomatic history at the Royal MilitaryCollege of Canada PATRICIA A. LANE President of Lane Environment LimitedWINSOME LESLIE Economic Attache to the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington, D.CGREGORY MAHLER Provost and Professor of Political Science at Kalamazoo CollegeHAROLD ROBERTSON is currently his country's High Commissioner to Lagos, Nigeria

• Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART I: OVERVIEW Canadian-Caribbean Relations: A Canadian Perspective; J.Hosten-Craig Canada and the Caribbean: Power without Paternalism in the Age of Interdependence; I.Griffith Canada and the Caribbean: Political Commonalities and Convergences; G.S.Mahler PART II: CANADIAN VIEWS Canadian and Caribbean Perspectives on Security in the Region; H.J.Klepak A Regional Approach to Sustainable Development in the Caribbean: Applying the Test of Common Sense (TOCS); P.A.Lane Emerging Linkages: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the Caribbean; M.C.Ircha PART III: CARIBBEAN VIEWS Canada-CARICOM Relations Since The 1980s; H.Robertson Problems and Prospects of CARIBCAN: An Assessment Six Years Later; S.Basdeo Canadian Economic Assistance to CARICOM Countries: Assessment and Future Prospects; R.L.Bernal & W.J.Leslie The New Regionalism: The Caribbean-Canada Trade Agenda; W.Dookeran & M.L.Campanella Conclusion: Towards a New Paradigm of Canadian-Caribbean Relations Index