TY - BOOK AU - Ramos,Aarón Gamaliel AU - Rivera Ortiz,Ángel Israel TI - Islands at the crossroads: politics in the non-independent Caribbean SN - 976-637-040-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - JL 599 .5 .A58 I85 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Kingston, Jamaica, Boulder, Co. PB - Ian Randle Publishers, Lynne Rienner Publishers KW - Caribbean Area KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- KW - Local KW - Economics conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Caribbean territories at the crossroads / Aarón Gamaliel Ramos - - Puerto Rico : regional transformations and political change / Aarón Gamaliel Ramos & Angel Israel Rivera - - Culture and politics and self-determination in Puerto Rico / Idsa E. Alegría Ortega - - Fifty years of assimilation : assesing France's experience of Caribbean descolonisation through administrative reform / William Miles - - The construction of dependency : economy and politics in the French Antillies / Justin Daniel - - The French Antillies in the 1990s : between European unification and political territorialism / Fred Constant - - The political status of Curacao at the end of the twentieth century / Rita Giacalone - - The recolonisation of Aruba / Armando Lampe - - Eternal empire : Britain's Caribbean colonies in the global arena / John Connell - - Direct participation of non-independent Caribbean countries in the United Nations : a method for self-determination / Carlyle Corbin - - Conclusion : rethinking politics in the non-independent territories / Angel Israel Rivera - - Appendix : Statistical profile of non-independent territories ER -