Download or read book The New Political Economy of United States-Caribbean Relations written by Tony Heron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the United States and the Caribbean, this informative book traces the advent and subsequent growth of production sharing between outsourcing textiles and apparel firms and assembly operations, located in specially designated export processing zones. The study brings a fresh perspective to the continuing debate about globalization and regionalization in the global political economy and the ways in which state policy, in both developed and developing countries, shapes the patterns of economic integration and competitiveness among participating countries and firms.