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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.

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the planta

"This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of the multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of urban populations, contemporary debates on urban policies, and the future of the city in this region. Scholars of diverse origins and specializations analyze Latin American and Caribbean cities showing that, despite their diversity, they share many characteristics and challenges, and that there is value in systematizing this knowledge to both understand and explain them better and to promote increasing equity and sustainability. The contributions in this handbook enhance the theoretical, empirical and methodological study of urbanization processes and urban policies of Latin America and the Caribbean in a global context, making it an important reference for scholars across the world. The book is designed to meet the interdisciplinary study and consultation needs of undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, and more"--

Este estudio examina la implantación y eliminación de la banca francesa en el Caribe durante el período 1880-1920/24. Considera las estrategias específicas que los bancos franceses utilizaron para instalarse en los diferentes países de la región y las dificultades que tuvieron que afrontar en la última década del siglo XIX para consolidar su posición. La última parte del estudio muestra los diversos factores económicos y financieros, así como políticos y diplomáticos, que minaron la actividad de estos bancos en esta región y que llevaron a su total desplazamiento durante el período de la Gran Guerra en beneficio de los principales bancos estadounidenses. El estudio se basa en dos fuentes de archivo importantes: los archivos de los Estados Unidos y los archivos franceses, incluidos los documentos públicos, y los de los bancos comerciales. ; This study examines the implantation and the removal of french banking in the Caribbean during the period of 1880-1920/24. It considers the specific strategies that French banks utilized to settle in the different countries of the region and the difficulties which they had to face in the last decade of the 19th century to consolidate their position. The latter part of the study shows the various economic and financial factors as well as political and diplomatic ones which undermined the activities of these banks in this region and that led to their total displacement during the period of the Great War for the benefit of the major US banks. The study relies on two major archival sources: archives of the United States and French archives including public documents and those of «merchant banks». ; Cette étude analyse l'implantation ainsi que l'éviction de la banque française dans la Caraïbe pendant la période de 1880-1920/24. Elle considère les stratégies particulières que les banques françaises mirent en place pour s'installer dans les différents pays de cette région et les difficultés auxquelles elles eurent à faire face durant la dernière décade du XIXe siècle pour y consolider leur position. Elle montre enfin les différents facteurs économiques et financiers ainsi que politiques et diplomatiques qui ont miné les activités de ces banques dans cette région et qui ont conduit à leur évincement total pendant la période de la Grande Guerre au profit en particulier des grandes banques américaines. L'étude s'appuie sur deux grands fonds d'archives: les fonds des archives nationales des Etats Unis et les fonds des archives françaises qui regroupent, pour leur part, ceux des archives publiques et ceux des banques d'affaires. ; peerReviewed

This book analyzes the ways in which the Venezuelan immigrant community is making an impact on the social and economic dynamic of small economies. This publication addresses some of the main economic development conversations on trade, labor, and fiscal implications of immigration. This book attempts to collate and unpack some of the relevant theoretical frameworks which provide a basis for policymakers and other key decision-makers. In this regard, the links between immigration and economic development is discussed with a focus on Trinidad and Tobago as a representative case within the Caribbean community. Roger Hosein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He is also the coordinator of the Trade and Economic Development Unit (TEDU) a research cluster within the Department of Economics. Anthony Gonzales is the former Director of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Bhoendradatt Tewarie is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Rebecca Gookool-Bosland is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

International audience ; This paper reports the first outcomes of a research program "Environment and Sustainable Development in the Caribbean space" co-funded by the European Union, the Région Martinique and the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane under the European Union operational programme 2007-2013. Since the middle of the last century, the Caribbean countries, regardless of their great diversity and political fragmentation, are faced with the recurring problem of development. Having explored different paths, they are looking now for new development models. This challenge which becomes obsessive over the decades, is now a major concern: indeed, the Caribbean territories are per se vulnerable and highly exposed to natural risks due to climate change. In addition, this relates to areas where tensions between exploitation and conservation of a rich biodiversity are particularly strong. Based on the promotion of tourism and services as part of an "open regionalism" at the intersection of global and local scales of public action, the current development strategies give rise to a dual approach with, however, rather mixed results: on the one hand, a discursive use of sustainable development, apprehended through its environmental dimension, evidences a new way of looking at the region and a change in the way the region sees itself; on the other hand, a political use of sustainable development through cross-cutting policies, is hindered by the complexity of structures, the multiple levels of action and regulation, and the difficult appropriation of public-policy organization by local communities and people. ; Cet article rend compte des premiers résultats d'un programme de recherche « Environnement et développement durable dans l'espace caraïbe » cofinancé par l'Union européenne, la région Martinique et l'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane dans le cadre des programmes opérationnels européens 2007-2013. Il montre que les territoires de la Caraïbe, après avoir exploré plusieurs voies en matière de développement, privilégient désormais des stratégies axées sur le tourisme et les services. S'inscrivant dans un « régionalisme ouvert » au croisement des échelles globale et locale d'intervention en matière d'action publique, ces stratégies débouchent sur une double démarche aux résultats contrastés : d'un côté, une mise en discours du développement durable, appréhendé notamment à travers sa dimension environnementale, témoigne d'un changement de regard sur la région et de celle-ci sur elle-même ; de l'autre, une mise en politique du développement durable à travers des dispositifs à caractère transversal, se heurte à la complexité des structures, à la multiplicité des échelles d'intervention et de régulation ainsi qu'à la difficile appropriation desdits dispositifs par les populations locales.

International audience ; This paper reports the first outcomes of a research program "Environment and Sustainable Development in the Caribbean space" co-funded by the European Union, the Région Martinique and the Université des Antilles et de la Guyane under the European Union operational programme 2007-2013. Since the middle of the last century, the Caribbean countries, regardless of their great diversity and political fragmentation, are faced with the recurring problem of development. Having explored different paths, they are looking now for new development models. This challenge which becomes obsessive over the decades, is now a major concern: indeed, the Caribbean territories are per se vulnerable and highly exposed to natural risks due to climate change. In addition, this relates to areas where tensions between exploitation and conservation of a rich biodiversity are particularly strong. Based on the promotion of tourism and services as part of an "open regionalism" at the intersection of global and local scales of public action, the current development strategies give rise to a dual approach with, however, rather mixed results: on the one hand, a discursive use of sustainable development, apprehended through its environmental dimension, evidences a new way of looking at the region and a change in the way the region sees itself; on the other hand, a political use of sustainable development through cross-cutting policies, is hindered by the complexity of structures, the multiple levels of action and regulation, and the difficult appropriation of public-policy organization by local communities and people. ; Cet article rend compte des premiers résultats d'un programme de recherche « Environnement et développement durable dans l'espace caraïbe » cofinancé par l'Union européenne, la région Martinique et l'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane dans le cadre des programmes opérationnels européens 2007-2013. Il montre que les territoires de la Caraïbe, après avoir exploré plusieurs voies en matière de ...

Cuba and Panama, 1901-1905 -- Genesis of the Roosevelt corollary -- Elihu Root's policy -- Dollar diplomacy and intervention in Nicaragua, 1909-1913 -- Dollar diplomacy elsewhere in the Caribbean -- Military occupation of the Dominican Republic -- Intervention in Haiti -- Wilsonian dollar diplomacy in Nicaragua -- Non-recognition of revolutionary governments -- Relations with Cuba, 1909-1921 -- Intervention and dollar diplomacy in retrospect

While the liberalization of trade has entailed adjustment costs for both large and small developing countries and LDCs, preference erosion is particularly onerous for small states. Tony Heron investigates the political and economic consequences and, more particularly, policy responses to the erosion of non-reciprocal preferences caused by the liberalization of trade. Although preference erosion is nothing new, what is striking at the current juncture is the degree to which preference erosion is now dominated by a policy consensus that sees the process as not only unavoidable but also desirable. He seeks not such much to challenge this viewpoint as to explore its political implications by looking at the actual experience of individual countries and regions making the transition from preferential to reciprocal free trade.