Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach
May 23, 2022
Patsy Lewis recently published with Routledge titled, "Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach".
Patsy Lewis
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Patsy Lewis
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Biography
Patsy Lewis is Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Brown University. She received her PhD and MPhil from Cambridge University (Trinity College) and BA from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. She specializes in the political economy and development challenges of the Caribbean. Her published work has focused on the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), in particular the role of these regional integration arrangements in addressing the development challenges of Caribbean small states.
Research
The Development Challenges of Small states, with a special emphasis on international trade, agricultural production, regional integration, regionalism and international relations, the political economy of the Caribbean; Comparative studies of the Pacific and the Caribbean; the Grenada Revolution; Intervention and International Law with reference to small states; Caribbean migration. Development strategies in the Contemporary Caribbean
Publications
Patsy Lewis, 2022. Regional Integration in the Caribbean: A Critical Development Approach. Routledge.
Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Jessica Byron (eds). ( 2022). Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty in a Time of Global Fragmentation. University of the West Indies Press.
Patsy Lewis, 2020. ‘The Challenging Path to Caribbean Integration’. Current History. February.
Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Jessica Byron (eds) 2018. Pan Caribbean Integration: Beyond CARICOM. London and New York: Routledge.
Patsy Lewis, 2016. ‘Brexit: Implications for CARICOM’s Cohesion’, in Peter Clegg (ed.), “Brexit and the Commonwealth”. Special Issue of The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. October/November.
Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams, Peter Clegg (eds.) 2015, Grenada: Revolution and Invasion. (268 pages) Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press.
Kristen Lowitt, Arlette Saint Ville, Patsy Lewis, Gordon Hickey (eds.) (October 2015), “Global change and food security: The special case of small island developing states.” Regional Environmental Change, Vol. 15, Issue 7.
Teaching
IAPA/LACA 1402
News|Recent News
New series of discussions, performances and podcasts will focus on the migrant experience
October 21, 2020 News from Brown
A Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a series of Brown University-based events and community partnerships focused on migration from and within Latin America and the Caribbean.
Here's What America Can Do for the Post-Irma Caribbean (written by Patsy Lewis)
September 13, 2017 Fortune
Patsy Lewis, Director of the Development Studies undergrad program, in Fortune, "The U.S., given its close proximity and long history of engagement with the region, is well-placed to take the lead.
Events
Apr 25, 2023
Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty in a Time of Global Fragmentation
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street or register here to attend webinar
Nov 15, 2022
Introducing In the Wake of George Floyd: Responses to Anti-Black Racism in Rhode Island
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Digital Scholarship Lab room 137, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street or register here for virtual event
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Virtual Events
Nov 11, 2022
Caribbean Regional Integration: A Critical Development Approach
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street or register here for virtual event
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Meet the Author
Feb 23, 2022
Alternative Grammars of Anti-Racism in Latin America
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Addressing Global Racism, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Virtual Events
Dec 8, 2021
US-Haiti Relations: A Conversation with Former Special Envoy for Haiti
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Nov 11, 2021
Nov 4, 2021
Sawyer Seminar Musical Event
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Join the webinar here or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Arts and Culture, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Virtual Events
Oct 6, 2021
Sep 23, 2021
CLACS Virtual Fall Reception
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Jun 9, 2021
The Consequences of the Eruption of La Soufriere Volcano in St. Vincent: A Conversation with H.E. Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube Channel.
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Summer 2021