Resources for students, teachers and scholars

Overview of resources on Caribbean integration and the CSME for teachers, researchers, journalists, businesspeople and others who want to say current on Caricom. Comments and suggestions are especially welcome. 
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The Persistence of the Caribbean

Keynote Address at Caribbean Studies Symposium, University of Puerto Rico, October 25, 2007
The Caribbean is not a cohesive political or economic grouping. Yet the notion of a Caribbean region continues to have salience and resonance because of a sense of shared history and culture and shared characteristics in the relationship with metropolitan powers and metroplitan capital.
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Power Imbalances and Development Knowledge

Prepared as part of a North-South Institute (Ottawa) project, this paper discusses the reform of the international development architecture within an analytical framework of power imbalances and development knowledge hierarchies. It argues for a context-specific and locally driven approach to development, with the knowledge empowerment of the South playing a central role. Hierarchies should be [...]