Re-mapping the Americas : trends in region-making

Foreword, HE Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin; . - Part I Backdrop: W. Andy Knight, Julian Castro-Rea and Hamid Ghany;. - Regional and global governance: theory and practice in the Caribbean, Vaughan Lewis. - Part II Hegemony, Regionalization and the Changing Hemisphere: . - The FTAA and its untimely demise, W. Andy Knight;. - Free trade: a tool for US hegemony in the Americas, Julian Castro-Rea;. - Remapping trade relations in the Americas: the influence of shifting power, Gaspare M. Genna;. - CARICOM's engagement with Latin America: the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), its promise and challenges, Mark Kirton; . - Latin America in China's peaceful rise, Joseph Y.S. Cheng;. - Assessing the developmental potential of the FTAA and EPA for small developing states, Patsy Lewis;. - Whither CARICOM?, Matthew Louis Bishop. - Part III Regional Security, Governance and Multilateralism: . - The political economy of post 9-11 US security in Latin America: has anything really changes?, Greg Anderson; . - The constitutional and political aspects of strategic culture in Trinidad and Tobago, Hamid Ghany; . - From engagement to influence: what role for civil society in shaping trade policy and regionalism?, Annita Montoute; . - Caribbean integration: can cultural production succeed where politics and economics have failed? (Confessions of a wayward economist), Norman Girvan; . - Liberalization of fair trade or globalization of human (in)security? Protecting public goods in the emerging economic integration of the Americas, Obijiofor Aginam;. - The dynamics, limits and potential of formal liberal democracy in Latin America, Fred Judson;. - Why democracy and the free market are good for caudillos: the Nicaragua case, Kalowatie Deonandan. - Conclusions, W. Andy knight, Julian Castro-Rea and Hamid Ghany;. - Bibliography; Index