CANADA-CARIBBEAN RELATIONS: WHEREIN THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP?

In: POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY QUARTERLY, Band 11, Heft 5, S. 501-513

Abstract

CANADA AND CARIBBEAN HAVE A LONG-STANDING RELATIONSHIP FOSTERED BY A COMMON INTEREST IN RESISTANCE TO BRITISH IMPERIALISM AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC HEGEMONY. THIS PAPER TRACES THE HISTORICAL ROOTS THROUGH A SERIES OF FORMAL BILATERAL AGREEMENTS CULMINATING IN THE ONE, KNOWN AS CARIBCAN, RATIFIED IN 1986. THE AUTHOR CONCLUDES THAT TODAY, THE CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC BASES OF THIS RELATIONSHIP ARE TOURISM, INVESTMENT AND AID RATHER THAN MERCHANDISE TRADE.