This course is a follow on from Caribbean Political Systems I and is structured around the central theme of the politics of development in the Caribbean periphery. This theme is proposed against the backdrop of wider debates on debt, aid and development practices in the region and the extent to which competing institutional and interpretive traditions can help theorize around the key patterns affecting the Caribbean. Having deepened research around the key institutions underpinning Caribbean political systems in the previous semester, students are now being given the platform to engage with this thesis; locate Caribbean political science scholarship within these wider debates; and to master key analytical and ameliorative techniques. This course is designed to help identify and develop the next generation of scholars who can demonstrate advanced academic competencies around the Caribbean experience, however understood