The Caribbean is at a crucial phase in its development. Global and local pressures have seen the region losing its competitiveness, while it remains at risk of losing out on development gains made in the last few decades. These pressures are demanding improvements in the way government operates, particularly in its policy-making and administrative
This volume is a collection of studies conducted by the Regional Coordination for Economic and Social Research (CRIES) into the problems of civil society and armed or violent conflicts in Latin America and the Caribbean. These studies, carried out within a program embracing research, consultation, networking, impact, and information dissemination, have been used by CRIES in the development of a Regional Action Plan for civil society, and in a presentation before the United Nations in the framework of the Global Conference promoted by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). They also informed a Global Action Plan and served as a basis for the Latin American and Caribbean Platform for Conflict Prevention and Peace Building, created in October 2004.
The contributors to Cuba and the Caribbean focus on trends in the international and regional affairs of the Caribbean nations in the 1990s, with special attention given to the reintegration of Cuba into the hemispheric community. Many of the 13 essays in this volume were presented at a multinational workshop involving scholars from Cuba, Venezuela, the United States, France, Puerto Rico, and other countries. The articles provide a comprehensive framework for understanding the dynamics of a complex region confronting globalization, the formation of trade blocs, and international crime.
"In-depth qualitative study of post-1959 Cuban immigration to Puerto Rico interprets Cubans as forming a middleman minority on the island. Includes chapters on the middleman minority thesis, a history of migration, the emergence of a Cuban ethnic economy, and the social organization of the community. Also available in English (Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 1997)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
A select, annotated bibliography providing a multidisciplinary guide to Cuba, a country two-thirds the size of Great Britain with some eleven million inhabitants. This volume contains an especially diverse selection of topic headings. There are the usual listings on topics including geography, flora and fauna, prehistory and history, religion, social conditions, foreign relations, economy, finance, industry, literature, sports, media, and the like. In addition, there are sections on tourism and travel guides, travellers' accounts (by era), revolution, slavery and race, and women. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
An interdisciplinary journal that publishes original research and surveys of current research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
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