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The Caribbean Basin Initiative, the most recent of a long list of United States policy initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean, continues to intrigue readers. This study is an analysis of United States Foreign Policy in the Caribbean and Central America in general, and Jamaica in particular with special emphasis on the Caribbean Basin Initiative. The study focuses on answering a number of important questions regarding the impact of the CBI on the economic and socio-political conditions of the Island-Nation brought on earlier by the turbulent US/Jamaica relations of the Michael Manley administration, 1972-1980.

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A onetime member of the Jamaica Foreign Service, Hewan is now a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University. His book focuses on Jamaica and the Caribbean Basin Initiative within the context of US foreign policy in the Caribbean and Central America. The author concludes that the primary objective of the US initiative had to do less with development in that region than with the Reagan administration's preoccupation with military security, political loyalty, and the promotion of US economic interests. He observes that Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean and Central America actually experienced a weakening of their economies during the Reagan years, an outcome that set off alarm bells regionally and in the larger international community. What does not emerge clearly from Hewan's study is why the Reagan administration should not have been preoccupied with promoting US national interests in the region, and why the Caribbean Basin Initiative may have been at odds with US interests, short-term and long. All told, this is a well-written, useful study. It will appeal mostly to professional scholars and graduate students and a general readership interested in US foreign policy and the Caribbean and Central America. A. Magid; SUNY at Albany