The Political Economy of Caribbean Development [Paperback]

Studies of the global political economy have rarely engaged with development in the Caribbean, the thought of its indigenous intellectuals, or the non-sovereign territories of the region. Matthew Bishop compares the development of the independent English-speaking islands of St Lucia and St Vincent and their non-sovereign French neighbours, Martinique and Guadeloupe. By explaining how distinctive patterns of British and French colonialism and decolonisation came to bear on them, he investigates how very different patterns of development have subsequently ensued, often with startling consequences in this era of globalization and crisis. By engaging with the empirical reality of the Caribbean, his study sheds light on a range of wider debates relating to development, indigenous thought, post-colonial sovereignty, small states, and the contemporary evolution of the global political economy.1. Introduction PART I: ENDURING STRUCTURES, UNDERSTANDING AGENCY 2. The Caribbean: A Global History 3. The Rise and Fall of Caribbean Development Theory 4. Beyond the Impasse: Towards a New Political Economy of Development PART II: THE COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EASTERN CARIBBEAN DEVELOPMENT 5. Political Development 6. Economic Development 7. Social Development PART III: CONCLUSIONS 8. Conclusion: The Caribbean, Development and IPE

'The first truly comparative study of the forces of political and economic decision-making on the political development of the contiguous French and English-speaking countries of the Eastern Caribbean. - Vaughan Lewis, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

'A timely and important contribution to the literature on Caribbean political economy, small states, the non-independent Caribbean, and critical and comparative IPE. Matthew Bishop skilfully integrates a wide range of disparate concerns and issues into a comparative analysis of development in the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean which forces those of us working in thel“'