 | EU and CARICOM: Dilemmas versus Opportunities on Development, Law and Economics Subjects: Area Studies; Law; Politics & International Relations; Commonwealth Caribbean Law; European (EC) Law; International Law - Law; International Relations; American Studies; Socio-Legal Studies; Caribbean Studies; International Trade & Economic Law; Socio-Legal Studies - International Law & Politics; Global Governance; International Organizations; International Law; Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book explores the major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisations individually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates how EU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other development measures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states that are active in the EU-CARICOM framework. Providing case studies on key issues such as immigration, tax and energy, it examines the impact that the EU-CARICOM has on the slave trade and the deportation of millions of people. Such bitter experiences still indirectly shape culture, hopes and the economic framework of possibilities today; therefore, the focus of the volume is on the issues which the constant stream of globalisation creates. The book assesses many potential impacts that the agenda of the EU and Brexit pending will have upon the EU-CARICOM relationship, given the potential for these to create instability. Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to accept the Sustainable Development Goals and thus to make inequality, climate change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on EU-CARICOM. Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to accept the Sustainable Development Goals and thus to make inequality, climate change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on EU-CARICOM. Alicia Elias-Roberts is Deputy Dean and Lecturer in law, Faculty of Law, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Stephen Hardy is Professor of Law and a scholar in employment law. He is currently Head of the Coventry Law School, Coventry University, UK. Winfried Huck is Professor of International and European Economic Law and Dean at the Brunswick European Law School, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. |
