02969cam a2200421 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300600190003000700150004900800410006401000170010502000260012202000270014802000300017502000310020503500130023604000280024904200080027704300120028505000120029708200300030908600290033910000270036824500860039526400440048130000220052533600260054733700260057333800360059950400510063552014800068658800820216661000250224865100420227365100410231565100300235677601610238622337596OSt20251008130911.0m    |o  d |      cr_|||||||||||211207s2022    enk     ob    001 0 eng    a  2021057213  a9781000587494q(epub)  a9781003207597q(ebook)  z9781032075365q(hardback)  z9781032075440q(paperback)  a22337596  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  apcc  acc-----00aHC155.500a330.9729223/eng/20211207  2MACROTHESAURUSa01.02.011 aLewis, Patsy,eauthor.10aCaribbean regional integration :ba critical development approach /cPatsy Lewis. 1aLondon ;aNew York :bRoutledge,c2022.  a1 online resource  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of regional integration in the contemporary Caribbean, challenging the value of the neoliberal ideology that permeates regionalism discourse. The book asks what value neoliberal regionalism holds for the Caribbean, when its economic goals of efficiency and competitiveness serve to actively marginalize small states within the global community. Presenting an alternative framework for assessing success, the book investigates how the Caribbean community (CARICOM) can confront new challenges and perform a more developmental function, centring economic transformation and a more democratic process. The book also explores long-standing challenges with implementing regional decisions at the national level and the absence of avenues for citizens to influence the direction of the integration movement. It explores these themes against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the climate crisis which underscore the fragility of Caribbean economies, their high levels of indebtedness, weak social security systems, and their marginality, Bringing together decades of research from one of the world's foremost scholars on the subject, this book will be essential reading for researchers of the Caribbean specifically, and for those with an interest in regionalism more generally, across the fields of political economy, international relations, history, geography, economics and global development"--cProvided by publisher.  aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.20aCaribbean Community. 0aCaribbean AreaxEconomic integration. 0aCaribbean AreaxEconomic conditions. 0aCaribbean AreaxCommerce.08iPrint version:aLewis, Patsy.tCaribbean regional integrationdMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022z9781032075365w(DLC) 2021057212