Sunset over the islands : the Caribbean in an age of global and regional challenges /

This is not as pessimistic a study as its title would indicate. Serbin, a Venezuelan social scientist, calls for the development of a strong regional "epistemic community" of academics addressing the development issues of the Caribbean. The study is useful in several ways. It provides a sweeping overview of theories and models of international relations with relevance to the region, and it reviews the many, often faulty, ways that Caribbean institutions have attempted to cope with the changing international dynamics. The volume goes beyond Hilbourne Watson, ed., The Caribbean in the Global Political Economy (1994) or H. Michael Erisman's Pursuing Postdependency Politics: South-South Relations in the Caribbean (CH, Apr'93). Incidentally, the book could as easily find heavy use in a library's reference section. Recommended for upper-division and research collections. E. M. Dew; Fairfield University