00682nam a2200085Ia 4500100001900000245005800019260000900077520049100086583001900577  aPAYNE, Anthony  aUS hegemony and the reconfiguration of the Caribbean.  c1994  aPoints out that the process of reconfiguration now under way in the Caribbean draws attention to the emergence of a Caribbean Basin defined by the commonality of its economic and political predicament in the context of a changing world order, and the growing awareness of the key elements of this new situation by the technocratic elites.  Advances the argument that this reconfiguration of the Caribbean as Basin is being driven forward by the wider phenomenon of US hegemonic decline.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR