The caribbean: geopolicts and geohistory

Abstract

Pan-Caribbeanism — whether as a policy aspiration, as scientific conjecture, or as sentimental indulgence — is an increasingly familiar by-product of the Caribbean crucible of new and self-renovating nations. Any politician who pursues the goal of Caribbean federation, however, or any social scientist who generalizes about Caribbean societies is forced to recognize that hitherto the only focused and authoritative regional perspectives have been geopolitical and externally imposed. Ironically, the persons and powers who adopted them are precisely those responsible for the region's fragmentation, for its neutralization against internal schemes of integration.

Keywords

• Caribe
• geopolítica
• História