Foreword, HE Ambassador Albert R. Ramdin; . - Part I Backdrop: W. Andy Knight, Julian Castro-Rea and Hamid Ghany;. - Regional and global governance: theory and practice in the Caribbean, Vaughan Lewis. - Part II Hegemony, Regionalization and the Changing Hemisphere: . - The FTAA and its untimely...

This book explores the changing face of US imperialism in the context of a system that is in crisis. At issue are the devastating effects of the turn of many multinational corporations towards 'extractivism'-a pillage of society's natural resources.