The Origins and Implications of the Caribbean Basin Initiative: Mortgaging Sovereignty?

1985 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Polanyi-Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
The Caribbean

Selling the Caribbean

Worldview ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-20
Author(s):  
John Tessitore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Organization Of American States ◽  
American States ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Recovery Act

Last November nearly two thousand conferees from the United States and twenty-six Caribbean nations gathered in that most Caribbean of all cities, Miami. The occasion was the annual conference on trade, investment, and development in the Caribbean Basin—die seventh such conference to date. This year, however, there was a difference. President Reagan had announced his Caribbean Basin Initiative in February of 1982 at a meeting of the Organization of American States; and on August 5, 1983, following often delicate negotiations with Congress and a score of governments, the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act became law.

Editing in a Bilingual, Bicultural Context

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
Linguistic Interference ◽  
The Caribbean

Editing in a bilingual, bicultural environment involves many of the same problems and frustrations as editing in a monolingual environment; however, the bilingual, bicultural environment often exacerbates these problems. Editing is further complicated by linguistic interference among the author's languages. Finally, culturally conditioned attitudes toward the duties and responsibilities of the editor create areas of potential conflicts between editor and author. If technical participation of non-native English speakers is to increase, as hoped for in such endeavors as President Reagan's policy of the Caribbean Basin Initiative, editors must be sensitive toward those problems in such complicated circumstances.

Shoring up a Sea of Signs: How the Caribbean Basin Initiative Framed the US Invasion of Grenada

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 547-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Weber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
The Us ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
The Caribbean

Diseourse in the United States concerning the Grenada invasion exemplifies what is at stake at the intersection between geography and critical geopolitics. In this paper I have taken seriously the geographic imagery of foreign policy discourse in order to examine how discursive diplomatic flows (and other fluids) are shaped by the containers in which they are placed. The Caribbean Basin Initiative—the Reagan administration's geopolitical container for its Caribbean policy—allowed the administration to chart a new course for US hegemony in the region. Contained and contextualized by the Initiative, regional struggles such as the invasion of Grenada are saturated with implications that may have been absent had Caribbean policy been framed differently.

The Caribbean Basin Initiative

2019 ◽  
pp. 153-186
Author(s):  
Carmen Diana Deere ◽  
Peggy Antrobus ◽  
Lynn Bolles ◽  
Edwin Melendez ◽  
Peter Phillips ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Basin ◽  
Caribbean Basin Initiative ◽  
The Caribbean
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