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This book seeks to place emphasis on the transnational dynamics of globalization. Whereas international processes occur across borders, transnational processes, in addition to this, occur through functional integration (to different degrees and through different ways). This can be seen most clearly in today¿s networks of finance and production, of which Asia and Oceania are deeply integrated.

The beautiful Caribbean basin is fertile ground for a study of capitalism past and present. Transnational corporations move money and labor around the region, as national regulations are reworked to promote conditions benefiting private capital. Globalizing the Caribbean offers a probing account of the region’s experience of economic globalization while considering gendered and racialized social relations and the frequent exploitation of worke...

Jeb Sprague is at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti, and the editor of Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania. He is a founding member of the Network for Critical Studies of Global Capitalism (NCSGC). Visit him online at: https://sites.google.com/site/jebsprague/.

This book seeks to place emphasis on the transnational dynamics of globalization. Whereas international processes occur across borders, transnational processes, in addition to this, occur through functional integration (to different degrees and through different ways). This can be seen most clearly in today¿s networks of finance and production, of which Asia and Oceania are deeply integrated.

In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violenc...

In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violenc...