A Revolution Aborted
The Lessons of Grenada
Published on 23. November 2010
366 pages
978-0-8229-7447-5 (ISBN)
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Twelve essays address the political and cultural features of the Grenada experience, in light of the 1979 uprising that toppled Prime Minister Eric Gairy, and the subsequent U.S. invasion of 1983. The contributors discuss theoretical issues that go to the heart of dilemmas faced by many small, developing societies.
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Jorge Heine is professor of political science and CIGI Chair in Global Governance at Wilfred Laurier University. Dr Heine served as Chile's Ambassador to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (2003-2007), was Ambassador of Chile to South Africa (1994-1999), and a cabinet minister in the Chilean government.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Revolution Aborted
- PART I: THE DOMESTIC RECORD
- 1. People's Power in Theory and Practice
- 2. Socialism and Cultural Transformation in Grenada
- 3. Macroeconomic Growth Under the People's Revolutionary Government: An Assessment
- PART II: INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- 4. The Foreign Policy of the People's Revolutionary Government
- 5. Socialism via Foreign Aid: The PRG's Economic Policies with the Soviet Bloc
- 6. The United States and the Grenada Revolution: Who Pushed First and Why?
- PART III: CRISIS AND AFTERMATH
- 7. The Hero and the Apparatchik: Charismatic Leadership, Political Management, and Crisis in Revolutionary Grenada
- 8. Small States, Eastern Caribbean Security, and the Grenada Intervention
- 9. The Restoration of Electoral Politics in Grenada
- PART IV: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT
- 10. Whither Caribbean Socialism? Grenada, Jamaica, and Guyana in Perspective
- 11. Democracy and Socialism: Reflections on the Grenada Experience
- 12. Size, Pluralism and the Westminster Model of Democracy: Implications for the Eastern Caribeean
- Grenadian Politics and Society: A Bibliographic Guide
- Notes on Contributors
